US soldiers repelled an offensive by thirty gunmen and two suicide truck bombers at an outpost near Fallujah on Monday.

According to a statement by the US military, "Approximately 30 terrorist fighters engaged the compound with small-arms fire, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars. The soldiers returned fire with small arms, mortars and artillery."

American firepower also detonated two bomb-laden trucks as they attempted to crash through the gates to get inside the compound at Garma, west of Fallujah.

Nine US soldiers were injured in the attack, and the military estimates they killed 15 insurgent gunmen.