Iraqi officials say a car bomb has exploded near a hospital in the capital, Baghdad, killing four people and wounding 10 others.
Officialssay the bomb went off late Thursday next to the morgue of Yarmoukhospital in western Baghdad. Car bomb attacks have become lessfrequent in the Iraqi capital since the launch of security operationsby Iraqi and coalition forces last year.
In other developments,the U.S. military says coalition forces have killed at least twosuspected militants and detained 10 others in Iraq since Wednesday.
Themilitary says troops killed one militant and detained three othersThursday in a raid targeting al-Qaida near the border with Syria. Inanother operation Thursday, the military says troops killed onemilitant and detained three others near the northern city of Mosul.
Themilitary says coalition troops detained at least four other militantsin raids across central and northwestern Iraq on Thursday and Wednesday.