More than a dozen activists launched an assault on a Baghdad police station early Tuesday, wounding two policemen, and a roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier on patrol in western Iraq, according to officials.
Tuesday's deadly attack on the U.S. patrol happened west of Rutbah, about 220 miles west of Baghdad, the military said.
The soldier, assigned to 1st Corps Support Command, was evacuated to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Rutbah is a desert town on the road to neighboring Jordan.
It was the second time in two days that a soldier from 1st Corps Support Command was killed in a roadside bombing. A soldier from the unit was killed Monday near Tal Afar, 95 miles east of the Syrian border.
Elsewhere, a roadside bomb exploded near an American patrol north of Baqouba, causing no damage or injuries, police Col. Ali al-Timimi said.
