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US soldier killed in attack in northern Iraq


Iraq guard killed, nine wounded in ambush near Iran border, Italian troops in firefight with insurgents in southern Iraq.


BAGHDAD - One US soldier died of his wounds after his patrol was attacked Thursday with small arms fire near the town of Hawija in northern Iraq as Italian troops traded fire Thursday with insurgents in the southern Iraq town of Nasiriyah.

The attack happened at about 1:00 pm (0900 GMT) near Hawija, a hotbed of Sunni insurgents west of the northern oil city of Kirkuk.

Meanwhile, an Iraqi border guard was killed and nine others wounded when insurgents ambushed their convoy near the Iranian border on Thursday morning, the border security unit said.