From Al-Jazeera…

The US military announced on Sunday that four soldiers were killed on Saturday when a roadside bomb ripped through a patrol in west Baghdad.
Another soldier was killed the same day when a foot patrol was struck by a bomb in the south.
A sixth soldier was killed and five wounded, also on Saturday, in a bomb blast in Diyala province, where attacks are on the rise as fighters focus on areas beyond the reach of an intensive security operation under way in the capital.
A marine also died on Saturday during combat operations in Anbar, the military said without elaborating.
The deaths brought to 3,220 the US military’s losses in Iraq since the March 20, 2003, invasion, according to an AFP count based on Pentagon figures.

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