Iraq soldiers: Two U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq - latimes.com

Iraq soldiers: Two U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq - latimes.com

Two U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq

The deaths are the first military fatalities since the killing of a U.S. soldier in early December.Meanwhile, a Christian woman is shot dead at home in Baghdad.

Reporting from Baghdad — 

Two U.S. soldiers were killed in action in central Iraq over the weekend, the military announced Monday.

Officials provided no further details about the deaths, the firstU.S. military fatalities in the country since the killing of a soldier by a sniper in early December in the eastern province of Wasit.

The killings raised American military deaths in Iraq since March 2003, when U.S. forces invaded the country, to 4,432, according to the independent website icasualties.org. Of those, 3,512 were killed by hostile fire.

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