700 more US soldiers arrive in troubled Iraqi province

More than 700 additional US troops arrived in Iraq’s increasingly volatile Diyala province today, to try to quell burgeoning violence just north-east of Baghdad.

The Army’s 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division moved from northern Baghdad into in Baqouba, Diyala’s provincial capital, early today, to supplement about 3,500 American soldiers already stationed there.