Two U.S. Marines killed by suicide car bomber in western Iraq

Two U.S. Marines have been killed by a suicide car bomber in western Iraq, the military said in a statement Saturday.
The attack happened in the volatile Anbar provincial team
of Haqlaniyah, 220 kilometers (140 miles) northwest of
Baghdad, on Friday during combat operations.
The Marines were assigned to the Regimental Combat Team 2,
2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, the
statement said. Their names were withheld pending
next-of-kin notification.
As of Saturday, at least 2,224 members of the U.S.
military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in
March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.