U.S.-British Attack Reportedly Kills 1
U.S.-British airstrikes in northern Iraq killed one civilian, the official Iraqi News Agency reported. Hadi Khader Daoud of Bertela, 250 miles north of Baghdad, was killed by one of 18 sorties carried out by American and British planes flying in from Turkey, the agency reported, quoting an unidentified spokesman for the Iraqi Air Defense Command. Bertela is about 12 miles east of Mosul, a frequent target of airstrikes and a city Iraq said was hit again. A statement issued by the U.S. military in Turkey said the warplanes struck military communications facilities east of Mosul.
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