| (VOI) -- The Multi-National Force (MNF) in southern Iraq said on Friday that it will start joint operations with Iraqi forces to "track down extremists and deny them chances to attack Iraqi civilians and security personnel". "The joint operations will take place on Friday in the area of al-Latif, (15 km) north of Basra, and were planned to continue for a week," the media spokesman for the MNF in southern Iraq, Cap. Chris Ford, told Aswat al-Iraq -- Voices of Iraq -- (VOI). "The MNF troops will be backing Iraqi security forces and help them maintain security in Basra," he said. |