BAGHDAD (AFP) - Ten insurgents were killed overnight during four separate operations in Baghdad's slum district of Sadr city, a senior military official revealed.
One US soldier was also wounded during the clashes in an area where the Mehdi militia of the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr and where he has some of his strongest support.
"We will continue to hunt down Sadr's militia as intelligence comes in. We go where the intelligence takes us," the official said Thursday.
A member of Sadr's militia was also killed in clashes late Wednesday with Polish forces in the holy Shiite city of Karbala.
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