Two US marines have been killed when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb near Iraq's western town of Amariya outside Falluja, some 40 kilometers west of Baghdad, the US military said on Tuesday.

The military said in a statement that the two US soldiers were killed during fighting with insurgents on Friday near the town of Amariya outside Falluja, a focus of the Sunni Arab insurgency against the US-backed Iraqi government.

The Marines were assigned to the Regimental Combat Team 8, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward).

According to the US military, the total US military death toll has raised to 1,999 since the beginning of the US-led Iraq War in March 2003.

Source: Xinhua