Guerrillas killed two United States soldiers and wounded a third in an ambush in western Iraq, making November the bloodiest month since the war in the country began on March 20.

Gunmen ambushed a team of Spanish intelligence officers, killing seven agents in a bloody new attack on US allies in Iraq. There were also reports that two Japanese diplomats were ambushed and killed.

Two American troops have been killed and a third injured in separate attacks on their convoys in Iraq, the US military said today.

A massive explosion killed ten Iraqis and injured four others in a mosque in the volatile town of Fallujah.