A Daily Look at U.S. Deaths in Iraq (1775)

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050723/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_deaths_29

As of Friday, July 22, 2005, at least 1,775 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,365 died as a result of hostile action. The figures include five military civilians.

The AP count is five higher than the Defense Department's tally, last updated at 10 a.m. EDT Friday.

The British military has reported 92 deaths; Italy, 25; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 17; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Slovakia, three; Estonia, Thailand and the Netherlands, two each; and Denmark, El Salvador, Hungary, Kazakhstan and Latvia one death each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 1,636 U.S. military members have died, according to AP's count. That includes at least 1,256 deaths resulting from hostile action, according to the military's numbers.