By Xinhua
Baghdad : Insurgents killed two US soldiers in separate attacks in the Iraqi capital, the US military said Monday.
A soldier was killed when insurgents attacked a joint US and Iraqi patrol in western Baghdad, the military said in a statement.
Two Iraqi police officers were also wounded in the attack, the statement said.
Another soldier was killed when insurgents attacked his combat patrol with small arms fire in southern Baghdad, another military statement said.
The names of the soldiers are being withheld pending notification of next of kin, the statements said.
About 3,580 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq since the Iraq war broke out in March 2003, according to media count based on Pentagon figures.