Five U.S. soldiers Killed In Iraq

The U.S. military said that five U.S. soldiers were killed Friday in a suicide bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Mosul is the provincial capital of Nineveh and is about 260 miles, or 420 kilometers, north of Baghdad.


A suicide truck bomber breached the outer security barrier of Iraqi National Police headquarters in southern Mosul, and detonated his explosives, killing eight people and wounding 60 others, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said. A U.S. soldier was also among the wounded, the U.S. military said.

U.S. and Iraqi military forces plan to pull out of Mosul to allow Iraqi police to control security in the city. But police are not quite ready yet, according to an Iraqi general.


"We need to bring the police to the required level. The deadline is the end of July, and it's not enough time to prepare the police," said Gen. Hassan Karim, commander of Nineveh operations for the Iraqi army. "(That) means we'll need U.S. forces to stay in Mosul."