US-led forces kill 20 al-Qaida-in-Iraq insurgents

US-led coalition forces killed 20 insurgents, including two women, today in an attack targeting al-Qaida in Iraq militants, the US command said.

The ground forces were searching buildings in an area around Thar Thar Lake in Salahuddin province north-west of Baghdad when they returned machine gun fire they had received from one of them, killing two insurgents, the military said.