By SPA,
Baghdad : U.S. forces killed at least 19 militiamen in the latest clashes in Baghdad, the military said Saturday, as American and Iraqi forces struggle to halt the barrage of rockets launched from neighborhoods.
A U.S. soldier assigned to the Multi National Division _ Center also died from non-combat related injuries, the military also said. The death raised the number of the U.S. military losses in Iraq to at least 4,074 since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.