The U.S. government's office in central Iraq came under mortar fire early Saturday, an attack that touched off a blaze in part of the complex, Iraqi police said. There was no immediate word on damage or casualties.
In the western city of Tal Afar, two suspected insurgents were killed during an overnight search for those behind a suicide bombing Friday that killed six Iraqi soldiers in the western city of Tal Afar.
Hand grenades and 20 AK-47 assault rifles were seized in the raid just east of the city, along with fake ID cars and passports, cell phones, and a pair of pickup trucks, police Brig. Najim Abdullah al-Jubouri said.
Al-Jubouri identified those killed as Zainal Abdul-Ghani Younis al-Haider and Bakir Khuweiret, and said 10 terrorist suspects were arrested.
The mortar attack was at least the second reported in recent weeks against the U.S. office in Hillah, which oversees government and diplomatic interests in the central Euphrates region, about 60 miles south of Baghdad.
Nine of the 10 mortar bombs fired landed inside the complex, police Capt. Muthanna Khalid Ali said.
He said U.S. and Iraqi forces sealed off the area and there was no word on damage or injuries.
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