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Mr. Kabila is "busy working with our personnel to secure the town," Mr. Mende said Sunday night.

But the trip to search and secure the town proved more difficult than the soldiers had expected.

The Afghan Army, which has a base on the edge of Gardez, was deployed to secure the town after the attack, the Defense Ministry said.

In Bunagana, some 600 Congolese soldiers, including elite Belgian-trained commandos hurriedly brought in to supposedly secure the town, escaped over the border into Uganda when M23 attacked.

Some of the most high-profile American-led offensives of President Obama's surge were fought along the Helmand River valley, including a centerpiece campaign to secure the town of Marja.

"The trick is now to secure the town with our Afghan partners, and that will set the conditions for reconstruction and development to take place, but, importantly, for the district governor to get down here, meet his people, confirm their needs, and then start to improve their quality of life," he said.

To the south of Mosul, security forces said they had recaptured and secured the town of Hammam al-Alil from Isis fighters, who they said had kept thousands of residents as human shields as well as marching many others alongside retreating militants towards Mosul as cover from airstrikes.

At the time, rebels said they were carefully searching and securing the town.

Securing the town, the mayor explained, includes painstakingly restoring the stone walls that delineate the terraced hilltops that surmount it.

French troops and the Malian army reached the gates of Timbuktu on Saturday and secured the town's airport.

When the morning came, the volunteers swiftly began securing the town of 500 people, most of whom were white women and children.