Baghdad - Eleven people from one family were killed by US fire in the Iraqi city of Mosul, an official security source said on Sunday.

"US troops killed 11 people from one family while conducting a dawn raid on a house in the 17 Tammuz neighborhood, western Mosul," the source told Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency.

"Iraqi army forces delivered the bodies, which had been placed in nylon bags by the US forces, to the morgue in Mosul city," the source explained.

A morgue official told VOI that the dead included three women, three children and five men.

Baghdad - Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit on Sunday arrived in Iraq on an unannounced visit, the first by a high- level Egyptian delegation since the 2003 US invasion, an Iraqi official

Baghdad - An Iraqi soldier was killed late Saturday when two Black Hawk helicopters collided while landing in northern Baghdad, a US military spokesman told CNN.

Two US troops and two Iraqi soldiers were injured in the crash, said military spokesman Lieutenant Patrick Evans.

He said enemy fire was not suspected in the collision of the two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters.

Baghdad - US forces killed an al-Qaeda leader and mastermind, who is believed to have overseen a wave of bombings that recently hit the Iraqi capital, the US Army said in a statement.

Abu Rami, who is also believed to be behind the killing of a group of Russian diplomats in 2006, was killed in Baghdad's Sunni district of Adhamiyah on Friday.

The military said intelligence reports led US forces to a building where Abu Rami was hiding.

The troops came under attack from inside the building and fired back, killing Abu Rami and an unnamed woman.

Ankara - The outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) launched a heavy attack on Turkish border posts that left 38 dead, Turkey's military leadership said Saturday in Ankara.

The PKK launched the attack from northern Iraq, the military said, adding that 15 Turkish soldiers and 23 PKK fighters were killed in the attack.

Two soldiers were unaccounted for.

The attack took place on the Aktutun border post in the south- eastern province of Hakkari.

Baghdad - Iraq's presidential council endorsed a long- delayed provincial election law, according to a statement issued on Friday by the office of Tareq al-Hashemi, deputy to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

However, the council expressed reservations over the cancellation of Article 50, which meant that minorities would not be able to take part in the elections, according to the statement.

Earlier on Friday, the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency said that the president did not endorse the law after expressing his concern for emitting the article addressing quotas for minorities in the provincial councils.

VOI quoted Burham Saleh, Talabani's deputy in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).