The battle-fields of the Middle East, especially Iraq, is just turning into a killing-grounds for the US led Allied forces. The total number of the U.S. troops killed in Iraq since the war began in 2003 has well crossed the 3,000 mark.
As the US troops have intensified their efforts to defeat the insurgents in Iraq, after the Congress has set a deadline of March 31, 2008 for the withdrawal of the US troops from Iraq if the Iraqi government fail to mark any progress, the U.S. military has endured a rapid increase in battlefield deaths in the recent past.
The past weekend illustrates how the insurgents can meticulously target and kill Americans troops in Iraq. At least, 10 U.S. soldiers were killed in a fresh attack on Saturday and Sunday outside the capital town, Baghdad.
According to a fresh Associated Press count as a minimum 3,281 members of the U.S. forces, including seven military civilians have killed in Iraq War that is 14 higher than the Defense Department’s count.
Apart from a huge American military loss, the British military has accounted 140 deaths; Italy, 33; Poland, 19; Ukraine, 18; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Denmark, six; El Salvador, five; Slovakia, four; Latvia, three; Estonia, Netherlands, Thailand, two each; and Australia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Romania, one loss each.
The major concern most of the foreign troops are facing in Iraq is that there is no tangible enemy that it may overpower or defeat. They are battling al-Qaida and Iraqi guerrillas that appears from nowhere, plunder foreign troops and disappear among the civilians, leaving malign scars.
