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7 U.S. soldiers killed

BAGHDAD: Seven U.S. soldiers have been killed in attacks in Baghdad and Iraq's western Anbar province in the past three days, the U.S. military said on Tuesday. A U.S. soldier was killed by small arms fire in southwest of Baghdad, and two others were gunned down in north of the capital, the military said. The three were killed on Monday. A fourth soldier died on Sunday night of wounds sustained in a roadside bomb explosion west of the capital. Two more marines, assigned to Regimental Combat Team 7, died of wounds suffered during fighting, one on Saturday and the other on Sunday, while operating in Anbar province, the military said. The seventh soldier was killed when his unit came under fire in Baghdad on Monday. More than 2,715 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003. — Xinhua

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