Kenya security forces kill 10, arrest 36 in operation against Islamists

By Joseph Akwiri MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan security forces have killed 10 suspected al Shabaab Islamist militants and arrested 36 others in nine months since launching an operation against the insurgents on the coast, the head of the operation said on Friday. Somalia's al Shabaab have claimed a series of attacks in the past three years or so in Kenya that have killed hundreds of people. James Ole Serian, head of the joint army and police operation, said troops had swept the forest and de