By DPA
Baghdad : An Iranian intelligence officer and an Al Qaeda leader in Salahaddin province were among 12 militants reported killed in a US raid in south Samarra city, an Iraqi official report said Tuesday.
The report said the officer, identified as belonging to the Iranian intelligence, was carrying an Iranian passport, but it gave no details about him.
Al Qaeda leader Abu Obeid al-Jazaeri and his wife were also killed in the raid carried out Monday, 125 km from capital Baghdad, the report added.
Armed groups attacked a company of the Iraqi Army Tuesday morning in the village of Mekheisa in Abi Sayda district, killing three Iraqi soldiers and seriously wounding one, Voices of Iraq news agency reported, citing an official security source.
Mekheisa, an important stronghold of the Al Qaeda in Diyala province, is a hotbed of terrorists of Arab and Afghan nationalities, the source added.
The villages in Abi Sayda have recently witnessed several reconciliation meetings among Sunni and Shiite tribal leaders to fight terrorist groups.
An explosive device went off Tuesday morning near a police patrol on the main road linking Kirkuk to Mosul, wounding two policemen and destroying their vehicle, a Kirkuk security source told Voices of Iraq.