Two Al-Qaida Leaders Killed in Iraq Attacks

MOSUL/KIRKUK, Iraq  - Five people, including two unidentified al-Qaeda leaders, have been killed and eight others injured in unrelated attacks in Iraq, police sources said Wednesday.

Iraqi military forces shot dead the two al-Qaeda leaders in the area of al-Zahraa in the northern city of Mosul, security sources said. Further information on the leaders' identities was not immediately available.

The military was acting upon information it had received from the area's residents, the police source said.

Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and a military officer was injured by a bomb targeting an army patrol in Mosul.

A woman died and her child was injured in a bombing in another part of the city, in which police forces were targeted.

Another bomb exploded in a passenger car as it drove along a highway north of the city of Kirkuk, injuring three people.

Gunmen also opened fire on a civilian car in Kirkuk, injuring two passengers, including one security officer.

Police arrested an al-Qaeda leader and 15 other members of the organization in an operation in Baquba, west of Baghdad, Baquba police chief Abdulhussein al-Shimry said.

Ali Hussein Ibrahim al-Khailani, al-Qaeda's leader in the city's al-Harouniya area, was arrested for killing and displacing tens of people, al-Shimry said.

Police arrested 15 other wanted individuals, including seven al-Qaeda members, in a separate operation in the same area.