Special report: Tension escalates in Iraq     

    BAGHDAD, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- An American soldier was killed and two others were injured by a roadside bomb explosion in Diyala province in northeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Monday.

    A soldier assigned to Multi-National Division-North was killed and two others were wounded when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in the province on Sunday, a military statement said briefly without telling the exact location of the attack.

    The name of the deceased soldier is being withheld pending notification of next of kin, it added.

    The latest death bring the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq to some 3,960 since the outbreak of U.S.-led invasion in 2003,according to media count based on Pentagon figures.