Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi security forces on Tuesday arrested two wanted men and defused a car bomb in separate incidents in Mosul, the official spokesman for the Ninewa operations command said."Police arrested a wanted man in al-Matahen neighborhood in southern Mosul," Brigadier Khaled Abdul Sattar told Aswat a-Iraq, noting that he is a member of al-Qaeda's Islamic state in Iraq.
"Another police force arrested a wanted man in al-Rashidiya region in northern Mosul,: Abdul Sattar added.
"Anti-bomb squad managed to defuse a car bomb in Talkief district in north of Mosul without casualties," he continued. "The forces also found a weapons depot in al-Beaaj district in west of Mosul," he said, without giving more details.