Two Iraqi troops killed in Baghdad blast

A roadside bomb exploded today along a highway leading to Baghdad’s airport, killing two Iraqi troops and wounding 11 others – four critically – as Iraq’s interim prime minister reorganised the country’s security forces to combat terrorism.

Elsewhere, oil flowed to a southern port after crews completed key repairs on a pipeline sabotaged last week by insurgents, an official of the state-run Southern Oil Company said. It was unclear whether exports had yet resumed.