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Ten U.S. troops were killed on Saturday in combat across Iraq -- including five U.S. Marines killed in pitched battles near the Syrian border -- and an eleventh soldier died in a tank rollover, the military said. The deaths brought to 99 the number of U.S. troops killed in violence since April 1. Two Iraqi civilians were killed in a guerrilla rocket barrage in Baghdad, the U.S. military said Sunday. In the far-western city of Husaybah, five Marines were killed during a daylong firefight waged after a Marine patrol was ambushed Saturday morning by insurgents with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. Helicopter-backed reinforcements also came under heavy rifle and rocket-propelled grenade fire from as many as 150 guerrillas, who fought through the night and into Sunday, according to a release from the 1st Marine Division. Marines killed 25 to 30 insurgents in the battle, leaving an unknown number wounded, the release said. Also Saturday, three U.S. Army soldiers traveling in a 1st Armored Division convoy were killed when their convoy came under fire near the southern Iraqi city of Diwaniyah on Saturday evening, the military said. The 1st Armored Division is based in Germany. Another U.S. soldier was killed Saturday morning when a roadside bomb exploded near a military convoy in Baghdad, the military said. The soldier was from Task Force Baghdad, which is made up mostly of troops from the Texas-based 1st Cavalry Division. Separately, a U.S. Marine from the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force was also killed in action in western Iraq, the Marines said, giving no further details. Also Saturday, a U.S. Army soldier was killed and two others were injured when their Abrams tank rolled over in northern Baghdad. The military did not say whether the rollover occurred during combat, and did not specify the soldiers' unit. The names of the dead troops were withheld pending notification of families. At least 697 U.S. servicemembers have died in Iraq since the war began in March 2003. Two Iraqi civilians were killed Friday and four wounded when 122-millimeter rockets fired by insurgents fell short of a U.S. military base outside Baghdad and hit a civilian neighborhood, the military said. Two American civilian contractors and one U.S. soldier on the base were also wounded in that attack, the military added. The Mulindwas Communication Group
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