5 infiltrators captured west of Mosul

NINEWA /Iraqi News Border guards arrested on Thursday five Iraqi infiltrators, who tried to enter the country illegally in west of Mosul, a source from the Ninewa Operations Command said. “A force from the 6th border brigade arrested on Thursday (March 25) five Iraqis, who tried to enter Iraq illegally from Syria, in al-Baaj district, west of Mosul on the Iraqi-Syrian borders,” the source told Iraqi News. He gave no more details. Mosul, the capital of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. SH (P)/SR 1