Insurgents Strike US Compound in Mosul [View All]

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An Iraqi teenager was killed in the blast near Mosul's city hall, hospital sources said. Two others were slightly injured.

No U.S. casualties were reported in that incident or an early morning attack on a barracks by insurgents using rocket-propelled grenades, the U.S. military said.

Mosul, Iraq (news - web sites)'s third-largest city, had been relatively quiet in the past several months, but the security situation has deteriorated since October.

The continuing attacks by shadowy groups of Iraqi resistance fighters have cast doubt on the ability of the U.S.-led coalition to contain the growing insurgency, and have sparked an exodus from Baghdad of international organizations and diplomats from several Western countries.