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Baghdad - Six Iraqis were wounded Saturday in a bomb blast that targeted a police patrol vehicle in Baghdad, police said.

Three patrolmen were among the injured in the explosion in the capital's southeastern al-Zafaraniya district, a police source told Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency.

Meanwhile, three al-Qaeda in Iraq leaders were arrested during a security operation near Baquba city, according to a local police chief.

Iraqi police conducted a security operation that targeted strongholds of the so-called "Islamic State of Iraq" in al-Azeem area 15 kilometres north of Baquba, the source told VOI.

Baghdad - A US soldier was killed in an armed attack in Baghdad, the US army said on Friday. The attack took place Thursday.

"A Multi-National Division-Baghdad soldier died Feb. 26 from combat related injuries while conducting a patrol in Baghdad," the army statement said.

The death raised the number of US fatalities in February 2009 to 15, and brings the number of US soldiers who have been killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion in March
2003 to 4,252.

Baghdad - Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Mohamed Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah arrived in Iraq on Thursday, the first visit by a Kuwaiti official to Iraq in 19 years, local media reported.

Iraq, under former-president Saddam Hussein, invaded the neighbouring Gulf state of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, a move which triggered the first Gulf War in 1991. Relations between the neighbouring states have been icy since.

Baghdad - Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Mohamed Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah arrived in Iraq on Thursday, the first visit by a Kuwaiti official in 19 years, local media reported.

Iraq, under Former President Saddam Hussein, invaded the neighboring Gulf state of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, a move which triggered the first Gulf War in 1991. Relations between the neighbouring states have been icy since.

The Kuwaiti minister was received by his Iraqi counterpart, Hoshyar Zebari.

Baghdad - Iraq's National Museum reopened Monday, six years after it was looted and vandalised in the aftermath of the 2003 US-led invasion.

It is estimated that about 15,000 artefacts and antiquities were stolen in the chaos that accompanied Saddam Hussein's ousting. Some 6,000 items have been retrieved.

"It was a dark age that Iraq passed through," Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said during the reopening ceremony Monday. A "wave of ignorance" had swept the country following the invasion.