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| Iraqi Soldier Killed by Fire from Syria |
| 2013-03-04 |
| [An Nahar] An Iraqi soldier was killed and three people including a soldier were maimed inside north Iraq in fire exchanged between regime forces and rebels in Syria, the defense ministry front man in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... said. The casualties were caused by "fighting at the Yaarubiyeh border crossing inside Syria" on Saturday, Mohammed al-Askari told Agence La Belle France Presse by telephone. "The Iraqi forces that were hit by the fire were about 600 meters (yards) away from the crossing" into Iraq's Nineveh province, Askari said. He also said that four maimed Syrian soldiers were treated at an Iraqi hospital during Saturday's fighting. Mohammed Rahim al-Shammari, the head of the Nineveh provincial council security and defense committee, told Agence La Belle France Presse that no one was controlling the Syrian side of the crossing on Sunday, and that there was no activity there. |
| Posted by:Fred |