Local security forces are often overstretched.
intensive counterinsurgency operations to the development of local security forces.
The Americans work with specially vetted units of local security forces that they train and mentor.
Germany's elite unit, its SAS equivalent GSG9, was flown in to support local security forces.
These protests, too, were quickly broken up by local security forces.
In Sulaimaniya, 40 gun-toting members of local security forces surrounded and raided the party's office.
One represented a decentralization of power, as the American military organized Sunnis into local security forces.
Earlier victims have faced beatings from local security forces, even as they put out the flames.
Local security forces tortured Edelgireyev's father for information about his sons' whereabouts, he said.
Witnesses said the militants wore uniforms resembling those of local security forces and attacked at dawn.
The announcement itself was a powerful performance by the factory owners and local security forces.
