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U.S. toll

The Spokesman-Review

As of Friday, May 28, 800 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 585 died as a result of hostile action and 215 died of non-hostile causes. The department did not provide an update on Monday.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, four; Poland, three; Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia and the Netherlands have reported one each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 662 U.S. soldiers have died — 476 as a result of hostile action and 186 of non-hostile causes, according to the military’s numbers as of Friday.