Baghdad — The U.S. military said two US soldiers were killed in the North of the Iraq, while participating in operations.
The army said that the service members were killed Sunday.
No other information was immediately available, and the names of the dead were withheld pending notification of relatives.
Deaths bring the number of us soldiers killed in Iraq to 4,465. That is according to a count of the Associated Press.
Eleven American soldiers have died this month in related situations of combat. The figure of the victim is the largest number of deaths in combat since May 2009, when American forces were still operating freely in Iraqi cities.
Most deaths occurred in Baghdad and the South of the Iraq, reflecting the increased threat of Shiite militias to leave us forces.
Meanwhile, a suicide bomber in a wheelchair to jump himself at the entrance to a police station North of the capital, Baghdad Sunday, killing three people and injuring 18, officials said.
Two policemen were killed and 10 wounded in Tarmiyah, approximately 30 km north of Baghdad, two police officers and a medical official said.
The head of the municipality of Tarmiyah, Qassim Khalifa, told Associated Press that it was not clear whether the bomber was really disabled or using the wheelchair as a means of diverting attention from security personnel.
The bomber went to the police claiming have need of a letter from the police station stating that he had been mutilated in a terrorist attack, said Khalifa. Iraqis who have been disabled by a bombing or shooting may receive compensation from the Government if their injuries are documented.
"Police inspected him but not very carefully as it was disabled or do seem to be disabled, so they were let go in the police reception area where the explosion occurred," Khalifa said.
In Baghdad, the security authorities were in force to protect Shia pilgrims converging from across the country to commemorate the death of the Imam Musa al-Kadhim, a venerated figure in Shia. Pilgrims traditionally walk the twin-domed shrine in northern Baghdad's Kazimiyah district, where al-Kadhim is buried.
Predominantly Sunni militants have often target the pilgrims as they walk to and from towns and villages across the Iraq sanctuary. Sunday morning a sniper shot and wounded two Iraqi soldiers near the village of Wahda, a mixed village of Shia and Sunni 20 miles (30 km) South of the capital, said a hospital official and the police. Soldiers were assigned to one of the points of control put in place to protect the pilgrims as they walk to the shrine.
All the officials spoke on condition of anonymity that they were not allowed to disclose information.
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