* The U.S. military announced Sunday that a U.S. soldier assigned to 1st Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters group was killed in Al-Anbar province.
* In southwest Baghdad, insurgents shot a U.S. soldier to death, the military said.
* In east Baghdad, a roadside bomb killed two people and gunmen killed a Finance Ministry guard.
* In west Baghdad, seven mortar rounds killed four civilians.
* At least 17 bodies were discovered in Baghdad, all of them with torture scars and gunshot wounds to the head.
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* In the southern town of Hilla, a car bomb exploded in a market, killing two people. In nearby Kut, on the Iranian border, a land mine killed a border patrol guard, police said.
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