Mortar Rounds Strike Soccer Field in Baghdad Shiite District, Killing Eight and Wounding 20

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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A pair of mortar rounds slammed into a soccer field while young men were playing a game in a Shiite district of Baghdad on Wednesday as more than 60 people were killed in attacks nationwide.

U.S. forces also said they killed 14 suspected insurgents, detained 48 and rescued a kidnapped Iraqi policeman in a pair of raids outside Baghdad that began Tuesday.

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Mortar Rounds Strike Soccer Field in Baghdad Shiite District, Killing Eight and Wounding 20

No American casualties were reported in those actions. But the military said separately that a Marine died Wednesday from fighting in the volatile Anbar province west of Baghdad and a U.S. soldier was killed T...

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