A U.S. soldier died by a roadside bomb in the western section of the Iraqi capital while his unit was engaged in "route clearance operations," the military said Friday. A statement said the soldier died Thursday.
Meanwhile, British forces said on Friday there had been "an incident" in the northern Arabian Gulf after an Iraqi sailor reported seeing up to seven British or American military personnel being seized by an Iranian ship.
"There has been an incident somewhere in the north of the Persian Gulf," British military spokesman Major David Gell said in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, according to Reuters.
The sailor, who works on a merchant vessel, said the incident took place on Thursday in the Shatt al-Arab waterway. According to him, six or seven foreign military personnel were on two small boats that stopped to check two Iranian ships in the Siban area of the waterway, near the al-Faw peninsula that leads into the northern Arabian Gulf.
While they were doing this, an Iranian naval vessel pulled alongside and detained them. There was no sign of any violent confrontation, he said.
