Six U.S. soldiers were killed when insurgents attacked their patrol in a northern Iraqi city, and a car bomb targeting a joint U.S.-Iraqi patrol in Baghdad killed seven people, including one U.S. soldier, the military said Wednesday. A sixth died by small arms fire during combat operations near Habbaniyah in northwest Iraq.
This brings to 45 the number of US servicemembers who have been killed in Iraq in the last 10 days.
With the death rate continuing daily, August could become one of the deadliest months yet for the US in Iraq.