US troops injured in Baghdad attacks

Assailants and militiamen loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr wounded 15 US troops in four separate attacks in Baghdad, the US command said today.

The attacks took place over a six-hour period late yesterday, the military said, as separate fighting with al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia raged in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, south of the capital.