BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said two American soldiers were killed and one was wounded by a roadside bomb in Baghdad on Monday, while Iraqi officials reported that at least nine Iraqis died in a separate series of bombings.

And in Afghanistan:

A roadside bomb has struck a US-led military convoy outside the Afghan capital killing one soldier and wounding another.

The attack happened in the Bagrami district on the eastern outskirts of Kabul, the latest in a spiralling cycle of violence blamed on a resurgent Taliban