A U.S. soldier was killed early Sunday when an improvised bomb exploded in northern Baghdad, the military announced. The blast went off about 1:30 a.m., the military said in a statement. No other soldiers were wounded, it said. The name of the deceased soldier was being withheld until the next of kin could be informed. As of Friday, 930 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the U.S. Defense Department.
