33 Iraqis, 5 US Soldier Killed, US F-16 Fighter Jet Crashed, on June 15, 2007

The Iraq News Agency (INA) reported that Iraqis and a US soldier were killed on June , 2007.

- 4 US soldiers were killed in Kirkuk and Diyala, on Thursday. A fifth was killed in a non-combating circumstances, according to US sources.

- A US tank was destroyed in by Iraqi fighters in Al-A'adhamiyah. US soldiers killed three Iraqi civilians on the site.

- A US military base in Al-Saqlawiyah, in Al-Falloujah, was attacked with four mortars on Friday afternoon.

- A UN report stated that Iraqi oil resources are mismanaged in production and marketing due to the lack of accountability.

- A US force stormed Al-Sadr office in Suwairah, south of Baghdad, Killed Shaikh Arkan, and arrested another official.

- A Pentagon quarterly report stated that the Iraqi resistance daily attacks increased from 26 before the "Surge" to 58 after. More than 100 Iraqi civilians are being killed on daily basis.

- A policeman was killed in Hadithah when a police patrol was attacked there.

- 14 policemen and soldiers were executed by the Islamic State of Iraq group after the Maliki government refused to release Iraqi female prisoners.

The (US) Associated Press news agency (AP) reported that 14 Iraqis and 5 US soldier were killed on June 15, 2007. The AP also reported the following news.

American Fighter Jet Crashes in Iraq, No Word on Pilot; U.S. Announces 5 Soldier Deaths

An F-16 fighter jet crashed Friday in Iraq, the Air Force reported, in the first such loss in more than six months. The statement said the crash was an accident, but did not say where the plane went down or what happened to the pilot.

The loss of an F-16, a workhorse warplane in the Iraq war, is rare. One crashed last Nov. 27 in the western province of Anbar, killing the pilot. The jet that crashed shortly after midnight on Friday was deployed to the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing at Balad Air Base, 50 miles north of Baghdad.

"The cause of the accident is under investigation," said the statement from the Central Command Air Forces, which provided no further details.

5 U.S. Soldiers Die in Iraq; Curfews Still in Place to Hold Off Retaliatory Mosque Attacks

Five American soldiers died in Iraq, the U.S. military announced Friday, a day after shells were fired into Baghdad's Green Zone during a visit by the State Department's No. 2 official.

The prime minister imposed an indefinite curfew on Basra, Iraq's second largest city and gateway to the Arabian Gulf, after bombers leveled a Sunni shrine just outside the city.

Gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked the Talha Bin al-Zubair shrine about 13 miles outside Basra late Thursday, damaging the building, police said. They returned early Friday, planting bombs inside the structure that destroyed it, police said. No injuries were reported.

Three of the U.S. soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded near their vehicle Thursday during operations in Kirkuk province, in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said in a statement. Another soldier was wounded in the blast.

A fourth soldier was killed by small arms fire the same day in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad, another statement said. And another soldier died Wednesday in a non-combat related incident, which the military said it was investigating.

Thursday's barrage of rockets and mortars included one that hit on a street close to the Iraqi parliament less than a half hour before U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte passed nearby.

The attack again showed Iraqi fighters' resilience - including their ability to strike the heavily protected zone - despite a U.S.-led security crackdown across the city that began four months ago.

Meanwhile, the Islamic State of Iraq group released a videotape showing the execution-style deaths of 14 Iraqi soldiers and policemen after the expiration of a 72-hour deadline for the Iraqi government to meet their demands.

In a statement that preceded the video footage, the Islamic State of Iraq said its religious court "ruled that God's verdict should be implemented against the renegades" after its demands were not met. In an earlier video, the group demanded the release of all female prisoners in Iraqi prisons.

The U.S. soldier deaths announced Friday brought to at least 3,520 the number of American military personnel who have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,889 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.

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