A car bomb killed three US soldiers in Baghdad today, and four soldiers were killed south of the capital the previous day when a roadside bomb exploded beside their vehicle, the US military said.
A spokesman said the Baghdad car bomb exploded around 1:30 p.m. (local time). The victims were members of the US 3rd Infantry Division.
The victims of Monday's roadside bomb were soldiers assigned to the II Marine Expeditionary Force, the military said. The attack was in Haswa, south of Baghdad.
Since Sunday, at least 11 US troops have been killed in action in Iraq .
Elsewhere today a car bomb blast in central Baghdad killed at least two Iraqis.
Police said the car bomb exploded in a crowded street in Baghdad as a police patrol was passing. At least eight people were wounded in the blast.
Authorities raised the toll from a wave of bomb attacks the previous day to at least 54 killed, with scores wounded.
Yesterday, at least 19 people were killed when a car bomb exploded outside a Shia mosque in Mahmoudiya south of Baghdad, police said. Many of those killed and wounded were children.
In the town of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, two suicide car bombers blew themselves up in a residential area on Monday evening. The US military said at least 15 people were killed.
Officials said the attack appeared to target a Shia Turkmen leader, Hasan Bagdash. It was the second failed assassination attempt on Bagdash in recent days.
A car bomb outside a Baghdad restaurant popular with police killed 11 people yesterday, a government spokesman said.
In Tuz Khurmatu, south of the strategic oil city of Mosul, a suicide truck bomb explosion outside the mayor's office killed five Iraqis yesterday, and a multiple suicide bomb attack on a US base in Samarra killed four Iraqis.
Insurgent violence has killed more than 600 Iraqis since a new Shia-led government was announced on April 28th.