A U.S. soldier was killed by small arms fire in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the U.S. military said on Friday.

The soldier, assigned to the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, was killed by small arms fire on Thursday in Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, the military said in a statement.

A U.S. marine, assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5, died of wounds sustained due to enemy action while operating in Iraq's western Anbar province on Friday, the U.S. military said in an earlier statement.

The latest deaths brought to about 2,525 the number of U.S. military personnel killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003.

Source: Xinhua