Daily U.S. Casualties 5/25/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 5/25/2004

As of Monday, 795 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Department of Defense. Of those, 580 died as a result of hostile action and 215 died of nonhostile causes.

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, 657 U.S. soldiers have died -- 471 as a result of hostile action and 186 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers.

The latest deaths reported by the U.S. military:


A 1st Armored Division soldier was killed Saturday when his vehicle was ambushed outside Mahmudmiyah, Iraq.


A Marine died Friday near Camp Fallujah in a nonhostile incident.


A soldier and a Marine were killed Sunday in an explosion northwest of Fallujah, Iraq.


The latest identification reported by the Pentagon:


Marine Lance Cpl. Andrew J. Zabierek, 25, Chelmsford, Mass., died Friday in hostile action in Anbar province, Iraq; assigned to 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.