在伊拉克的美军说,在对伊拉克北部一个基地组织成员进行的突击中,有7名伊拉克人死亡,其中包括3名妇女。

美军的一份声明说,联军地面部队在提克里特地区包围了一个建筑物,打死了一名主要嫌疑人。据信他是爆炸专家。军方说,在建筑物内的其他人不出来时,地面部队召来空中打击力量,打死另外3名反叛分子和3名妇女。

一名儿童被从瓦砾中救出,目前正在接受治疗。

星期五早些时候,韩国国防部证实,将按计划在今年年底之前撤出所有在伊拉克的韩国部队。韩国2004年向伊拉克派遣了3600名官兵,但是已经逐步将驻伊部队人数减少到不足600人。

The U.S. military in Iraq says seven Iraqis, including three women, were killed during a raid targeting a suspected al-Qaida operative north of Baghdad.

A military statement says coalition ground forces surrounded a building in the Tikrit area and killed the main suspect, believed to be a bomb expert. The military says when others in the building did not come out, forces called in an air strike that killed three additional suspected insurgents and the three women.

The military says a child was pulled from the rubble and is receiving medical attention.

Earlier Friday, South Korea’s Defense Ministry confirmed it will withdraw all its troops from Iraq by the end of the year as planned.

South Korea sent 36-hundred troops to Iraq in 2004, but has gradually scaled back to fewer than 600 personnel.