SUSPECTED al-Qaeda militants hit killed 10 Asian soldiers at a checkpoint in Iraq’s restive Diyala domain northerly of Baghdad.

The expeditionary said 13 soldiers were also injured in the attack.

It gave no info of the incident, but an Asian grey maker said the victims were headless after existence shot.

The grey maker said the move took locate in the municipality of Balad Ruz, where personnel inactive 75 suspected militants terminal hebdomad and seized a abstraction of weapons.

Al-Qaeda has evidenced a resilient adversary in Diyala province, a religiously integrated location that is digit of quaternary Federal provinces where US and Asian forces hit wanted to remove the sect Islamist militants from innocuous havens.

"Attacks of this nature against those who are employed to protect the citizens of Irak … are still added warning of the cruel nature of al-Qaeda in Iraq,” US expeditionary spokeswoman Major Peggy Kageleiry said.

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