Anger at deadly U.S. military raid in southern Iraq…

BASRA, Iraq, April 26 (Reuters) – Hundreds of Iraqis protested against U.S. forces on Sunday after U.S. soldiers killed a man and a woman in an overnight raid that was condemned by the provincial governor.

The U.S. military said it targeted “special groups” fighters, or elite Shi’ite militiamen the United States says are funded and armed by Iran, in a raid on their house early Sunday in the city of Kut, 150 km (95 miles) southeast of Baghdad.

In a statement, the military said U.S. troops had shot and killed a man suspected of being behind supplying weapons to the Shi’ite fighters. One woman was killed in the crossfire and six suspected militants were arrested, it said.
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