Several US Soldiers Killed in Iraq
28/10/2005| IslamWeb
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A third US soldier was killed, again on Thursday, when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in Ramadi, 110km west of Baghdad, the US military said.
Two other military personnel were also killed but the
Two US Marines were killed in an indirect fire attack at Saqlawiyah in Falluja on Thursday, another
One Marine died at the scene and the second later died from his wounds at a nearby medical centre.
The names of the deceased are being withheld pending notification of next of kin and release by the US Department of Defence, the statement added.
The latest fatalities bring to 2012 the number of US military personnel killed in
In related violence, an Iraqi soldier was killed and another wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near their patrol in central Falluja, 50km west of
Woman and child killed by US troops
Police officer Shamil Ali said a woman and a child were killed in subsequent gunfire.
Aljazeera also reported that two Iraqis, a man and a woman, were killed when shot by US soldiers who were storming the al-Malaab neighbourhood east of the western city of Ramadi, Iraqi medical sources said.
Iraqi Rapid Reaction Forces killed two fighters during an operation to free about two dozen people taken hostage in Khamishli, 65km south of
Police said five of the hostages were found shot dead.
Eight civilians were wounded when a bomb went off near a bus station in Miqdadiya, 90km northeast of
Five civilians, two of them children, were injured when a mortar round landed on a residential district in Baquba, 65 km northeast of
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Iraqi men are searched by US Soldiers at a checkpoint in downtown