Iraqi translator shot in Mosul

An Iraqi woman translator working for the United States military was shot dead and her father badly wounded in an attack in the northern city of Mosul.

They said the woman had been on her way to work at the main US military base in Mosul when her car came under small arms fire in the city's northern suburb of al-Muthanna.

The shooting occurred a day after gunmen killed three US civilians and wounded two in Mosul.

Herald Feature: Iraq