BAGHDAD (CNN) -- A suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi army base in western Mosul on Tuesday, killing seven Iraqi soldiers and wounding 20 people, an official said.
In a separate incident, a member of the Mosul city council was assassinated by gunmen along with his driver in a drive-by shooting, said Salaheddin Thanoon, director of the Nineveh Health Directorate.
Mosul is about 225 miles north of Baghdad.
