Daily U.S. Casualties 6/18/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 6/18/2004

As of Thursday, 831 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 612 died as a result of hostile action and 219 died of nonhostile causes.

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

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 693 U.S. soldiers have died -- 503 as a result of hostile action and 190 of nonhostile causes, according to the military.

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


A Hungarian soldier was killed Thursday by a roadside bomb in a predominantly Shiite area south of Baghdad.


The latest identification reported by family members:


Army Maj. Paul Syverson III, 32, Arlington Heights, Ill.; killed Wednesday in action; assigned to the 5th Special Forces Group, Fort Campbell, Ky.