Indian Military

BAGHDAD: Three American soldiers were killed and one was wounded in two separate incidents in central and northern Iraq on Saturday, the US army said.
The deadliest incident saw two soldiers killed and the one wounded "while conducting operations in northern Iraq," a statement said, without giving further details.
Major Rob Phillips, a US army spokesman, said the incident occurred in the northern city of Mosul, where an Iraqi army officer earlier said two Iraqi soldiers opened fire on their American counterparts at a training centre.
Neither Phillips nor the Iraqi officer linked those deaths to that shooting.
Earlier, the Iraqi told AFP that the shooting, at the Al-Ghazlani training centre in west Mosul, was intentional but that it was unclear what provoked the incident.
He said three US troops had been wounded.
Separately, a third US soldier was killed on Saturday "while conducting operations in central Iraq", a US statement said, without providing details.

The deaths brings to 4,435 the number of American troops to have died in Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein, according to an AFP tally based on data from an independent website.
While combat operations were officially declared over at the end of August, some 50,000 US troops remain in Iraq, primarily charged with training and advising their Iraqi counterparts, ahead of a complete withdrawal at the end of the year, per the terms of a bilateral security pact.
US soldiers in Iraq also take part in joint counter-terror operations with local forces and are permitted to fire their weapons in self-defence.