Iraq ? Eleven Iraqis, including women and children, were killed Sunday after U.S. forces came under attack by gunfire and a suicide bomber during a raid in Mosul, the military said. No U.S. casualties were immediately reported.

Elsewhere in the city, gunmen opened fire on mourners in a funeral tent, killing four people and wounding three others, Iraqi officials said.

Violence has declined drastically throughout Iraq, but Mosul remains a major security challenge despite recent U.S.-Iraqi military operations aimed at routing al-Qaida in Iraq and other Sunni insurgents from the city.

In a boost to peace efforts, the first Egyptian foreign minister to visit Iraq in nearly two decades arrived in Baghdad.

“We reject sectarianism, extremism, violence,” Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said.

The visit reflected decreasing tension between Iraq’s Shiite-led government and Sunni Arab countries in the area.