US forces kill 7 militants in Iraq, 2 children die

-U.S.-led forces in Iraq killed seven militants with links to senior al Qaeda leaders in a raid on Monday near the area where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed last week, the U.S. military said. Two children were also killed, including a 6-month-old boy, it said, adding there were several women and children at the scene. A senior U.S. military spokesman, Major General William Caldwell, said the gunmen had had the children with them on a roof and described their deaths as "extremely unfortunate". Coalition aircraft supporting the ground force immediately suppressed the enemy fire, killing seven," it added. "Following the assault, coalition troops discovered two children had been killed."

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