Three US Soldiers Killed in Iraq
Source: Alalam.ir, 25-6-2008
BAGHDAD--A roadside bomb has killed three US soldiers and an interpreter in Iraq's northern Nineveh province, the US military said Wednesday.
The soldiers and the interpreter were killed at 10:45 pm (1945 GMT) on Tuesday, the military said.
The statement gave no further details about the attack in Nineveh province, where US and Iraqi forces have been waging a crackdown against al-Qaeda insurgents.
The attack on Tuesday came hours after two soldiers were killed in a bombing in the district council offices of Baghdad's Sadr City.
Two American civilians were also killed in the Sadr City attack, along with an Italian of Iraqi origin, as well as six Iraqis.
On Monday, two US soldiers were killed in small arms fire after a meeting in the local council office in the town of Madain, south of Baghdad.
The latest deaths take the US military's overall casualties since the March 2003 invasion of Iraq to 4,109 -- 25 of them in June, according to a tally based on independent website www.icasualties.org.
The US military said violence in Iraq fell to a four-year low in May following crackdowns by US and Iraqi forces on militias in Baghdad and the south of the country, and on al-Qaeda in Mosul, capital of Nineveh province.
US officials say Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, is the last major urban stronghold of the Sunni Arab insurgents.
Despite the crackdown, security forces have reported frequent shootings and bomb attacks around the city.
The head of Mosul city council, Khalid Mahmoud, and his driver were killed in a drive-by shooting on Wednesday, police said.
Late on Tuesday, a car driven by a bomber exploded near a police station in Mosul, killing a policeman and a child and wounding 73 people, including seven policemen, police said.
The US military said as many as 90 civilians were wounded in the bombing, which it blamed on al-Qaeda.
The US military's overall losses since the March 2003 invasion of Iraq rose to 4,109 after three US soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing in northern Nineveh province.
BAGHDAD--A roadside bomb has killed three US soldiers and an interpreter in Iraq's northern Nineveh province, the US military said Wednesday.
The soldiers and the interpreter were killed at 10:45 pm (1945 GMT) on Tuesday, the military said.
The statement gave no further details about the attack in Nineveh province, where US and Iraqi forces have been waging a crackdown against al-Qaeda insurgents.
The attack on Tuesday came hours after two soldiers were killed in a bombing in the district council offices of Baghdad's Sadr City.
Two American civilians were also killed in the Sadr City attack, along with an Italian of Iraqi origin, as well as six Iraqis.
On Monday, two US soldiers were killed in small arms fire after a meeting in the local council office in the town of Madain, south of Baghdad.
The latest deaths take the US military's overall casualties since the March 2003 invasion of Iraq to 4,109 -- 25 of them in June, according to a tally based on independent website www.icasualties.org.
The US military said violence in Iraq fell to a four-year low in May following crackdowns by US and Iraqi forces on militias in Baghdad and the south of the country, and on al-Qaeda in Mosul, capital of Nineveh province.
US officials say Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, is the last major urban stronghold of the Sunni Arab insurgents.
Despite the crackdown, security forces have reported frequent shootings and bomb attacks around the city.
The head of Mosul city council, Khalid Mahmoud, and his driver were killed in a drive-by shooting on Wednesday, police said.
Late on Tuesday, a car driven by a bomber exploded near a police station in Mosul, killing a policeman and a child and wounding 73 people, including seven policemen, police said.
The US military said as many as 90 civilians were wounded in the bombing, which it blamed on al-Qaeda.
The US military's overall losses since the March 2003 invasion of Iraq rose to 4,109 after three US soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing in northern Nineveh province.
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