France arrests 11 in Iraq fighter recruitment probe

PARIS, Feb 14 (Reuters) Police have arrested 11 people, including four women, in Paris and the south of France as part of an anti-terrorist operation targeting networks recruiting fighters in Iraq, a police source said today.

Six people were arrested in the suburb of the southern town Toulouse early this morning. Several of them had arrived in France last night from Syria, the source said.

Two other people were arrested in southwestern France and three in a Paris suburb.

The operation was organised by the anti-terrorist section of France's judicial police.

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