Two suspects have been arrested in this weekend’s coordinated attacks in at least 10 Mexican cities that killed three federal police and two soldiers, federal authorities said. One attacker was killed in a shootout with police during the arrests Sunday in Michoacan state, said the federal Secretariat for Public Security.
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Iraq: Death toll from huge suicide blast soars
The death toll from Saturday’s suicide truck bombing in northern Iraq — the deadliest single attack this year — has risen to 80, a police official said.
Iraqi security forces conduct raids in former insurgent hot spot
Iraqi police and soldiers on Saturday launched major raids in a once-notorious insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad. A police official in the Anbar province city of Falluja told CNN that a large number of security forces were scouring its Sinaie district for an array of weapons — machine guns, mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms.
Pakistan militants hit NATO supply convoy
Suspected Taliban militants destroyed 15 trucks in a NATO supply convoy in northwestern Pakistan’s restive tribal region early Monday, a Peshawar police official said.