Allawi's party headquarters in Najaf mortared, two wounded

Allawi's party headquarters in Najaf mortared, two wounded

Dec 10 (Reuters) - Following are security incidents reported in Iraq as of 1600 GMT on Saturday, Dec. 10.

U.S. and Iraqi forces are battling a Sunni Arab-led insurgency against the Shi'ite and Kurdish-led government in Baghdad.

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* NAJAF - Former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's party headquarters in Najaf was hit by mortar rounds on Saturday, injuring two party members and causing damage to the building, police said.

TAL AFAR - A suicide car bomber struck a U.S. convoy in Tal Afar in northern Iraq on Saturday, destroying two Humvee vehicles and injuring four civilians, witnesses and police said.

TIKRIT - An Egyptian translator working with the U.S. military who was taken hostage by gunmen has been found shot dead, police said on Saturday.

BAGHDAD - Four U.S. soldiers were killed in three separate incidents in the Baghdad vicinity on Saturday, the U.S. military said. Two soldiers were killed when they were fired upon, while another was also killed by small-arms fire. A fourth was killed when his patrol struck a makeshift bomb.

MOSUL - Gunmen shot two members of the Iraqi Islamic Party as they put up election posters in the northern city of Mosul on Saturday, killing one and wounding the other, police said. Police killed one of the three gunmen and arrested another.

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