U.S. forces in Iraq have arrested two people suspected of involvement with a terror group Washington says is linked to the al-Qaida network. Officials say the two were captured in the northern town of Mosul Friday. They are believed to be involved with the Ansar al-Islam group. U.S. forces also arrested eight suspected insurgents in the area in a series of raids that started Thursday. No casualties were reported in any of those operations.
Meanwhile, attacks on U.S.-led forces continued across Iraq. One U.S. soldier was killed and two others wounded Friday when insurgents detonated an explosive as their convoy drove by near Ramadi. Earlier, Iraqi insurgents fired on the U.S. headquarters in Baghdad for the first time in a month, hitting the so-called "Green Zone" — the compound that houses U.S. civilian and military operations in the Iraqi capital. Elsewhere, a roadside bomb detonated near a coalition patrol in the town of Mahawil, south of Baghdad. Two Polish soldiers were injured in the blast. On Thursday, one American soldier was killed and 14 others were wounded in a suicide bombing outside an army base in the town of Ramadi, west of Baghdad. |