U.S. soldiers killed 14 insurgents in two days of fighting in a strategic northern city, the American military said, and gunmen and a car bomb killed 10 Iraqi soldiers in central Iraq. A Muslim religious group on Monday accused Iraqi government commandos of torturing and killing 10 Sunni Arab civilians in Baghdad, fueling sectarian tensions between the country's two major religious groups, according to a report of the Associated Press. Soldiers of the U.S. 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment killed four insurgents in a gun battle Sunday, and 10 more were killed Monday as fighting raged in Tal Afar, 260 miles (418 kilometers) north of Baghdad, the U.S. command reported. American troops suffered no casualties, the statement said.
