American military death toll in Iraq to 3,217 since the war began in March 2003,

US Troop Deaths Show Sunni Resilience

Sunni insurgents, resilient despite the five-week security crackdown in the capital, killed at least six more US troops over the weekend. And a Sunni car bomber hit a largely Shiite district in the capital on Sunday, killing at least eight people. The latest deaths raised the American military death toll in Iraq to 3,217 since the war began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.