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WASHINGTON, July 17, 2005 – Two American soldiers in Iraq were killed by improvised explosive devices July 16. Another two soldiers were wounded. In the first incident, a soldier assigned to the 155th Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), died July 16 of wounds received July 15 from a car-bomb attack. The incident reportedly occurred during combat operations near Iskandariyah. Also on July 16, at about 4:00 p.m. in the Kirkuk province, an IED killed one Task Force Liberty soldier and wounded two other soldiers. The two wounded soldiers were taken to a coalition forces medical treatment facility....

JERUSALEM (AP) - A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip killed a young Israeli woman Thursday, hours after Israeli forces raided the West Bank home of a British woman and killed a militant, further shaking a five-month truce threatened earlier this week by a suicide bombing. Two rockets exploded Thursday in the village of Nativ Haasara, just north of Gaza. One hit a house and killed a woman in her 20s, the military said. The second destroyed a parked car. A Palestinian militant group, the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, said the rocket attack was retaliation for the killing of the...