Iraqi soldier killed in bomb attack

BAGHDAD: An Iraqi soldier was killed in Baghdad on Thursday in the first attack on the country’’s security forces since the landmark US military withdrawal from towns and cities nationwide. “A roadside bomb targeted an Iraqi army patrol about 8 am (0500 GMT) in Abu Nawas Street in Baghdad,” an interior ministry official said. “One Iraqi soldier was killed and eight people wounded, including two soldiers.” The official said it was the first attack on Iraq’’s army or police since they took control of security in urban areas on Wednesday for the first time since the US-led invasion of 2003, following the US pullback on June 30