Mosul, Iraq  - A university professor in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was murdered near her home, police said, in the latest incident in a string of attacks targeting intellectuals in the city.

Police did not release the woman's name, but said only that she was a professor of law and that she had been fatally shot near her home in the al-Intissar district of western Mosul.

Last month, Ahmed Murad Shehab, a professor in Mosul University's Faculty of Administration and Economics, was fatally shot in the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of al-Nur, on Mosul's left bank.

Mosul , Iraq - A truck bomb targeting a police station in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Friday killed five US soldiers and two Iraqi soldiers, the US military said. Police said a man drove a truck through the security barrier surrounding the Iraqi National Police headquarters in southwest Mosul on Friday, then detonated explosives packed in the vehicle.

The blast also wounded 20 Iraqi security officers and one US soldier, the US military said in a statement.

Mosul, Iraq  - In the second such killing in as many days, police on Thursday said they had found the body of another member of the minority Yezidi sect murdered near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

Police said the man had been shot in the head and in the chest, and that his body was found in the Bashiqa district east of Mosul, where Iraqi and US forces have recently ramped up their campaign to break insurgent groups responsible for deadly, and near-daily, attacks in and near the city.

Mosul - A young Iraqi girl watched her mother die of gunshot wounds in the northern city of Mosul on Thursday, police said.

The girl, who was also wounded, and her mother became the latest in a string of casualties in the city when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a street in western Mosul, roughly 400 kilometres north of Baghdad. It was unclear whether the two were the intended target.

Mosul, Iraq - Two Iraqi soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb as they patrolled an area west of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday, police there said.

The soldiers, who were on patrol in the al-Baj district roughly 60 kilometres west of Mosul, became the latest casualties in the government's attempt to pacify the area, which remains among Iraq's most dangerous.

On February 20, Iraqi security forces launched "Operation New Hope" in an attempt to arrest insurgents concentrated on Mosul's left bank. The push has netted more than

Mosul, Iraq  - Four people died in attacks near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, police said, in the latest in string of clashes and bombings in the area.

Three civilians were killed and four others were wounded by stray bullets when Iraqi police officers and unidentified gunmen exchanged fire in the al-Salam district east of Mosul, a source in the city's police department told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa on Monday.