BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The hostages rescued in a raid by U.S. special forces and Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces in northern Iraq were all Arabs, including local residents and Islamic State fighters held as suspected spies, a U.S. official said on Thursday.
The official told Reuters that around 20 of the hostages were members of Iraqi security forces.
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