TWO American soldiers were shot dead while waiting in traffic in Mosul yesterday, a day after suicide bombers killed up to 20 people in attacks on two police stations northeast of Baghdad.

TWO priceless pieces of Iraq’s ancient heritage, looted from Baghdad’s main museum in the chaotic days after Saddam Hussein’s fall, have been recovered from a Baghdad cesspool, US officials said.

A BOMB exploded outside the house of one of Iraq's most important Shi'ite clerics yesterday, killing three guards and injuring 10 others.

Terrorists detonated a bomb outside the house of one of the most important Muslim Shiite clerics in Iraq today, killing three guards and injuring 10 others including family members.

Saboteurs blew up a water main in northern Baghdad, forcing engineers to cut off water to the capital and raising new fears that rebels were hitting Iraq’s infrastructure to slow its recovery.