June 21 (Bloomberg) -- Fourteen U.S. service members and four Iraqi civilians were killed in Iraq in the last three days, the Army said, as a suicide bomber left at least 11 people dead.
Two separate roadside bomb attacks killed nine U.S. soldiers and four Iraqi civilians in Baghdad today and yesterday. Another roadside bomb on June 19 killed two soldiers and wounded four others southeast of Baghdad.
A rocket-propelled grenade attack killed one soldier and wounded three others today in northern Baghdad. Two Marines were killed yesterday in the western province of al-Anbar, the U.S. military said today in separate e-mailed statements.
At least 80 members of the U.S. military have died in Iraq this month. American deaths have risen each month since the start of intensified security operations in February.
A suicide bomber blew up an oil tanker today near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killing at least 11 people and wounding 70. The blast happened outside a government building in the town of Suleiman Beg, about 90 kilometers (56 miles) south of Kirkuk, state television said.
U.S. forces have killed at least 41 suspected insurgents in the northeastern province of Diyala since an operation began there on June 19, the U.S. military said today in a separate e- mailed statement.
American units in the province have been augmented by about 3,000 additional soldiers since April, after the security crackdown in Baghdad and the western province of al-Anbar sparked an increase in violence there, U.S. commanders have said.
Some 3,529 U.S. service personnel have died in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, including 2,897 who were killed in action. More than 26,000 have been wounded, 11,742 of them so seriously that they couldn't return to duty, according to figures on the Defense Department Web site.
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