Four U.S. soldiers were reportedly killed
One U.S. soldier was killed and another wounded when their vehicle came under attack by a rocket-propelled grenade and small arms fire in an ambush on the road between Balad and Ramadi, 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of Baghdad, Agence France-Presse (AFP) quoted the U.S. Central Command as saying.
The soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment were evacuated to the 28th Combat Support Hospital , Centcom said.
Aljazeera satellite channel further reported that three U.S. soldiers were killed and another wounded in al-Falah district in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday.
The channel correspondent said up to 50 U.S. armored vehicles surrounded a house in the district, believing that the two sons of the ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, Udayi and Qusai, were holing up there.
U.S. troops arrested the house’s owner, Sheikh Nawaaf Zidan, his wife and 19-year-old son as U.S. jet fighters reduced it to rubble.
The occupation forces also cordoned off the district and did not allow anyone in or out.
The attacks take to 42 the number of U.S. troops killed in action since an end to major combat operations in Iraq was declared on May 1, and to 153 troops killed in combat during the entire Iraq campaign, according to Aljazeera and an AFP accounts.
On Monday, July 21, three U.S. soldiers were killed and troops stationed at Ibn Firnas airport, north of Baghdad , came under a five-hour mortar attack from a group of the Iraqi resistance.
