BAGHDAD, Dec 25 (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq, one by a roadside bomb in the capital and two in the restive western province of Anbar, the U.S. military said in a statement on Monday.

The military said a roadside bomb exploded near a mounted patrol in a southern neighbourhood of Baghdad on Monday, killing one soldier and wounding two others.

In Anbar province, heartland of the Sunni insurgency, one Marine and a soldier were killed in combat on Sunday, the statement said. Anbar is the most dangerous region in Iraq for U.S. soldiers.

The deaths brought the U.S. death toll in Iraq to 2,967.

U.S. President George W. Bush is expected to announce in January a new strategy to curb violence in Iraq and allow the eventual withdrawal of some 135,000 U.S. troops. The Pentagon says violence in Iraq is now at an all-time high.

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