Four Iraqis were killed in a US airstrike in central Iraq while five American soldiers and an Iraqi civilian were wounded in a car bomb explosion north of Baghdad, according to reports.

OIL exports from southern Iraq have been brought to a complete halt following a spate of pipeline attacks launched by insurgents trying to undermine the nation’s interim government.

Oil exports from southern Iraq have been brought to a complete halt following a spate of pipeline attacks launched by insurgents trying to undermine the interim government.

IRAQ’S oil exports were still running at half their normal rate yesterday as instability due to an anti-US uprising prevented the reopening of a main pipeline feeding the country’s terminals in the Gulf.

An Iraqi oil pipeline was ablaze today after a bomb blast that stopped the flow to a key export terminal in Turkey.

Oil prices have risen following the suspected sabotage which closed Iraq's pipeline to Turkey only two days after it was reopened.

Saboteurs blew up a giant oil pipeline in northern Iraq, halting oil exports to Turkey only days after they had resumed and cutting off vital income for an economy in shambles.

A GRENADE attack killed a US soldier in Iraq yesterday as a pipeline fire blazed on after an overnight explosion described by an Oil Ministry official as sabotage.

An oil pipeline exploded and caught fire west of Baghdad today, sending flames shooting high into the sky, the US military said.

The Iraqi 5th Corps, charged with defending Mosul, Iraq’s third biggest city still in the hands of Saddam Hussein loyalists, was tonight reported to be negotiating surrender.