In separate attacks, insurgents targeted Iraqi police in Baghdad today, leaving at least three people dead, police said.

Militants targeted a US patrol with a roadside bomb today in the northern city of Mosul, killing four nearby civilians, while the US military reported that a Marine died in action in a strife-riven western province.

Up to 13 people are believed to have died in an explosion outside the main mosque in Baghdad’s southern Dora district.