A suicide car bomber and gunmen ambushed a convoy carrying female US Marines in Fallujah, killing two US Marines and leaving another four American troops presumed dead, the military said.

THE kidnappers of a Philippine hostage in Iraq have extended by nine days their deadline for Manila to withdraw its troops or see him executed, a senior diplomat said yesterday.

A US soldier was killed and three others were wounded in an attack on their vehicle south of Baghdad, the military said today.

A roadside bomb killed an American soldier and wounded another in Baghdad today, while a US Marine died as a result of hostile action west of the capital yesterday, the US military said.