Pentagon&#39;s death toll in Iraq rising
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WASHINGTON - November was the bloodiest month for US troops in Iraq since April, with at least 135 losing their lives and more than 50 falling in the two-week battle to evict insurgents from Fallujah.
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Attacks on U.S. and Iraqi troops and Iraqi civilians jumped sharply in recent months to the highest level since Iraq regained its sovereignty in June 2004, the Pentagon told Congress on Monday in the latest indication of that country's spiraling violence.
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About 1,000 contractors have been killed in Iraq since the war began and nearly 13,000 have been injured.
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American casualties in Iraq are mounting as the U.S.-led offensive in Fallujah unfolds. Monday's death toll of 11 was among the highest for a single day in Iraq since last spring, though most were killed elsewhere in the country.
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Death squads and terrorists have ramped up attacks on civilians in Iraq, killing more than 1,600 people in cold-blooded "execution-style" slayings in July alone, a Pentagon report said today. But the report concluded the "current violence is not a civil war, and movement toward civil war can be prevented."
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Despite a rising death toll, the war - framed as a global defense of democracy - may be tilting in Bush's favor.
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More than 10,000 US military personnel have been wounded in Iraq, Pentagon figures show.
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Violence in Iraq, as measured by casualties among troops and civilians, has edged higher despite the U.S.-led security push in Baghdad, the Pentagon told Congress on Wednesday
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The number of US military personnel killed in the 18 months since the invasion of Iraq has reached 1,000. Official figures show that 997 soldiers and three US Defence Department workers have died in the country since Saddam Hussein was ousted as leader.
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The US death toll in Iraq, having pushed past the symbolic 1,000 mark, has overtaken the situation in the country and was splashed on front pages of papers across the United States with the US presidential race nearing its home stretch.
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Latest fatalities raise the death toll of American soldiers this month to 68.
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BAGHDAD, May 23 -- More than three months into a U.S.-Iraqi security offensive designed to curtail sectarian violence in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq, Health Ministry statistics show that such killings are rising again.
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The US military death toll in Iraq reached 1,000 on Tuesday nearly 18 months after the invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, making its mark on the US presidential election campaign.
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The Pentagon said Wednesday that it will boost the number of US troops in Iraq to about 150,000, the highest level since the US occupation began 19 months ago.
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In a largely invisible cost of the war in Iraq, nearly 800 civilians working under contract to the Pentagon have been killed and more than 3,300 hurt doing jobs normally handled by the U.S. military, according to figures gathered by The Associated Press.
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Fueled by fierce fighting in Fallujah and insurgents' counterattacks elsewhere in Iraq, the U.S. military death toll for November is approaching the highest for any month of the war.
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BAGHDAD -- The US military yesterday announced the deaths of 14 more soldiers in the past three days, a heavy toll that underscored the increased exposure of American forces as reinforcements push deeper into war-torn neighborhoods of Baghdad and outlying areas in a bid to flush out militants.