He said soldiers had detained seven former members of the elite Guatemalan unit earlier this month along Mexico's southern border.

Kurds won another victory today when American forces here detained five members of an Arab delegation on its way to a city council election.

The Chinese police detained more than 100 members of the banned Falun Gong movement today in Tiananmen Square.

However, Belarusian authorities detained four members of the White Legion, a nationalist group, in the days following the attack.

Police officers on the scene beat and detained two members of the pro-Kremlin youth organization, Young Russia, who tried to hold a counter protest.

The police said they had detained more than 100 members of militant groups in raids overnight in southern districts of Punjab Province.

During the last three years, Israeli police have detained six members of the mosque, including Mr. Jarad, while they were visiting the occupied territories.

Military Police from the 709th Military Police Company detained three suspected members of a cell responsible for recent attacks in the district and at local market places.

By 21 August 2011, the Mexican authorities had detained 81 members of Los Zetas implicated in the massacre of the 72 immigrants.

In 1979, when it came to power after a long and vicious civil war the new government detained between 7,000 and 8,000 former members of the National Guard.