US Casualties Rise in Iraq
Jul 31, 20202.9K Shares2.9M Views
Still don’t believe me about signsof security backsliding in Iraq? After a four-month consecutive decline, U.S. deaths in Iraq rose in January, according to Nancy Youssef of McClatchy.
The U.S. death toll in Iraq increased in January, ending a four-month drop in casualties, and most of the deaths occurred outside Baghdad or the once-restive Anbar province, according to military statistics.
In all, 38 American service members had been reported killed in January by Thursday evening, compared with 23 in December. Of those, 33 died from hostile action, but only nine of them in Baghdad or Anbar.
A total of 3,942 American service members have been killed in Iraq as of Thursday, according to icasualties.org, an independent Web site that tracks the statistics.
U.S. officials in Iraq said the death toll had risen because the military was targeting armed groups that had been driven out of Baghdad and Anbar by the increase in American troops.
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