11 US troops killed in Iraq

Ammar Karim , Middle East Online

Five more US soldiers have been killed in attacks in Baghdad and a sixth in western Iraq, the military said Monday, as October remains on course to be the worst month for American deaths since 2004. The five were killed Sunday, three in gun attacks and the other two by roadside booby-traps, the US military said in a series of statements. It said a sixth soldier was killed Saturday in western Iraq, following an earlier announcement of the deaths of five marines and a soldier the same day, all but one of them in the west of the country. The deaths followed the killings of five more soldiers and marines on Saturday elsewhere around Iraq and brought to 86 the number of US troops killed in the first three weeks of October...

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