Seven more US troops have died in Iraq, including three marines and a sailor killed in a day of fighting in the restive province of Diyala north of the capital, the military said on Thursday.
The four were killed on Tuesday while fighting in the second most dangerous province in Iraq after Baghdad, where 10,000 US and Iraqi troops have been carrying out a major assault on suspected al Qaeda strongholds.
Another soldier was shot dead in south Baghdad on Wednesday, and earlier this week a soldier and a marine died of non-battle related causes in separate incidents, the military said. The latest fatalities took the US military's losses in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion to 3,641, according to an AFP count based on Pentagon figures.
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