TWO American soldiers were killed and four were wounded yesterday in a mortar attack on their base north of Baghdad. Earlier a US trooper was killed in a shoot-out in the northern city of Mosul.

A US soldier was killed today in northern Iraq and 13 troops were injured in a mortar attack north of Baghdad, the US command said.

A bomb exploded near a pipeline in northern Iraq, killing two Iraqi Civil Defence Corps members and wounding 10 others, US officials said.