US military kills 22 insurgents in Iraq clashes

Baghdad, Nov 25: The US military said it killed 22 insurgents in two separate clashes today just north of Baghdad, shortly after carrying out three air strikes that destroyed a bomb-making factory.

In one incident, the U.S. military said in a statement that they killed 12 insurgents including a militant suspected of rigging cars with explosives along a road north of Baghdad.

The US military said earlier they killed 10 insurgents after destroying a bomb-making factory in the town of Taji, a mostly Sunni town near a major US air base, in air strikes.

''After the fighting, Coalition Forces ... discovered significant caches consisting of rocket-propelled grenades, machineguns, anti-aircraft weapons, pipe bombs and more than 3,000 feet of detonation cord,'' the military said.

It said US forces suffered no casualties, but a teenager was killed and a pregnant woman wounded in one of the clashes.

Reuters