By ANTARA News,
Baghdad : Three US soldiers were killed Monday in east Baghdad where US and Iraqi forces are engaged in fierce battles with Shiite militia fighters, the American military said.
The soldiers were killed in an attack at around 1:05 pm (1005 GMT), a military statement said.
The latest deaths bring to 18 the number of US soldiers killed in Baghdad since the clashes with Shiite militia, mostly from the Mahdi Army of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, erupted on March 25.
The deaths brought the number of US troops killed in Iraq so far this month to 41 and to 4,053 the military’s total losses since the March 2003 invasion, according to an AFP count based on independent website www.icasualties.org.