A suicide car bomb struck an Iraqi police patrol yesterday in the northern city of Mosul, killing at least two people and wounding four, police said.
A roadside bomb also struck a car carrying members of a private security company in Kirkuk, 290km north of Baghdad, killing one person and wounding three others. Firefighters arriving at the site to help also were hit by a roadside bomb, which wounded two of them, Colonel Nashat Shawish said.
In Baghdad, a bomb exploded in a bus garage in the center of the capital, killing two people and wounding 10, Lieutenant Bilal Ali said. The buses in the garage were primarily used to take passengers to the Shiite slum of Sadr City.
Iraqi police in eastern Baghdad found the body of a man who was shot in the head, Lieutenant Raad Abdul-Hussein said.
Elsewhere in the capital city, gunmen killed an employee of the Dora refinery in a drive-by shooting, while an intelligence captain in the Interior Ministry was seriously wounded when gunmen opened fire on his car in the volatile neighborhood, according to Lieutenant Maithem Abdul-Razzaq.
Gunmen in a speeding car also opened fire on a Shiite family as they were walking to the market in a southwestern neighborhood in the capital, killing a 12-year-old boy and wounding his brother and two other relatives, he said.
A roadside bomb missed a police patrol in eastern Baghdad but killed one civilian and wounded four others, Major Mahir Mohammed said.
A bomb hidden in a bag also exploded in a market in central Baghdad, wounding seven people, Ali said.
About 1,500 Iraqi soldiers, meanwhile, fanned out near Muqdadiyah in Diyala Province as part of an operation to clear the area of insurgents, Brigadier General Ahmed al-Awad said.
Four cars and a motorcycle packed with explosives had been seized and 14 suspected insurgents were detained, al-Awad said. He also said two kidnapped civilians were released during the operation.
Meanwhile, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said yesterday that he would demand an independent Iraqi inquiry into the suspected rape and murder of a teenager and the killing of her family by US soldiers.
With the midday sun blazing, an experimental orange and white F-16 fighter jet launched with a familiar roar that is a hallmark of US airpower, but the aerial combat that followed was unlike any other: This F-16 was controlled by artificial intelligence (AI), not a human pilot, and riding in the front seat was US Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall. AI marks one of the biggest advances in military aviation since the introduction of stealth in the early 1990s, and the US Air Force has aggressively leaned in. Even though the technology is not fully developed, the service is planning
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