As of Saturday, Jan. 20, 2007, at least 3,052 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,434 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
The AP count is 33 higher than the Defense Department's tally, last updated Friday at 10 a.m. EST.
The British military has reported 129 deaths; Italy, 33; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 18; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Denmark, six; El Salvador, five; Slovakia, four; Latvia, three; Estonia, Netherlands, Thailand, two each; and Australia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Romania, one death each.
The count includes two deaths listed by the Department of Defense that could not be verified by the AP as Iraq-related casualties.
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The latest death reported by the military:
- Five soldiers were killed Saturday in a militia attack in Karbala.
- 13 servicemembers were killed Saturday in a helicopter crash northeast of Baghdad.
- A soldier was killed Saturday by a roadside bomb in northern Baghdad.
- A soldier was killed Saturday by a roadside bomb in Nineveh province.
- A soldier was killed Friday by a roadside bomb in Nineveh province.
- A Marine was killed Friday in Anbar province.
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The latest identifications reported by the military:
- Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Joseph D. Alomar, 22, Brooklyn, N.Y.; died Wednesday at Camp Bucca in a non-combat related incident; assigned to the Navy Provisional Detention Battalion.
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