Seven Iraqi Soldiers Killed After Attacks on Iraqi Army

By JOHN F. BURNS
Published: July 11, 2005

Seven Iraqi soldiers were killed after insurgents attacked an Iraqi Army check point north of Baghdad today, during the latest surge in violence in Iraq.

The attack occurred about 45 miles north of Baghdad in Khalis, the same town where 26 Iraqi soldiers died June 15 after a man wearing an army uniform blew himself up inside an Iraqi Army mess hall.

During the assault on the check point today, insurgents fired mortars and semi-automatic weapons, a Ministry of the Interior official said.

The United States military announced today that two marines had died Sunday in western Iraq after being hit by 'indirect' fire. The military did not release the names of the victims.

On Sunday in Baghdad, an attacker mingling with a crowd of men outside an Iraqi Army recruiting center detonated an explosive vest, killing at least 23 volunteers and wounding at least 40 others"