Baghdad Airport attack wounds 11

Insurgents fired at least 10 mortar rounds at a US base on the outskirts of Baghdad International Airport today, wounding 11 soldiers, two of them seriously, and starting a fire that burned for well over an hour.

Elsewhere, a car bomb exploded outside the headquarters of the provincial police force in Samawah, 150 miles south of Baghdad, police said. Two people were wounded in the blast, which set two other vehicles ablaze.