Baghdad - Seven US soldiers were killed in two separate attacks in Iraq, while Iraqi army forces arrested 17 suspected gunmen including four wanted ones, sources said Friday. Insurgents killed four marines Thursday during a security offensive in the western province of Anbar, the US military reported Friday.
Another three soldiers were killed Thursday in a blast in the northern province of Nineveh, bringing US military fatalities in Iraq to over 3,750 since the war in 2003.
Meanwhile, Iraqi army forces arrested 17 suspected gunmen, including four wanted by security agencies, in a raid in west Mosul early Friday, independent Voices of Iraq news agency reported citing Col. Hadji Maher.
The forces also discovered two hideouts used for making homemade explosives, Maher added.
