BAGHDAD - A mortar shell hit the roof of Iraq's parliament building in the Green Zone compound in Baghdad on Monday, but no injuries were reported, a lawmaker said.
"The shell landed almost above the office of the parliament speaker," said Sabah al-Saadi, a parliamentarian, adding that there was minor damage to the roof.
Al-Saadi was inside attending a committee meeting with other lawmakers when the mortar shell hit.
Also Monday, gunmen in two cars attacked a minibus heading to Baghdad from a Shiite town north of the capital, killing seven passengers, including a child, police said.
Thousands of soldiers, meanwhile, continued combing through fields and …
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