The repatriation of troops' remains is one of the commitments made during a landmark summit between North Korea's Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump in June.
Taliban fighters attacked the Afghan troops who had assembled to prepare an attack in the western province of Farah in the night, setting off a fierce battle, officials said. An air strike was called in and killed at least 25 militants, he said.
The arrest of a man, aged in his late 30s, came hours after a car rammed into soldiers, injuring six. The mayor of Levallois-Perret said the attack was "without any doubt" deliberate.
The operation came just a day after at least 23 soldiers were killed in a Daesh attack that targeted two military checkpoints in the region.
The guards were employed at America's largest base in Afghanistan. The ambush comes as Washington appears set to boost its troop presence in the country in a bid to tackle an escalation in the Taliban insurgency.
Daesh fighters are moving house to house through holes knocked in inner walls to avoid air surveillance. It is a battle that is being fought street by street as Iraqi forces attempt to retake Mosul.
The soldiers were killed during a raid against suspected militants in the central Sinai area.
The four civilians killed in the incident included two children of a family whose house was hit by a separate avalanche in Indian-administered Kashmir on Wednesday.
The 28 officers and 34 servicemen allegedly seized control of Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen Airport on July 15, the night of the attempted putsch last year.
The soldiers seized the country's second largest city of Bouake, demanding a rise in their salaries.
The attack comes a week after Daesh killed 50 Yemeni soldiers at a base in the city.
Prime Minister Theresa May shares plans to protect troops from the European Convention on Human Rights during conflict. The move would end what May calls "vexatious" human rights claims on British soldiers.
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