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Four U.S. Marines were killed in action in separate incidents in Anbar Province , a Sunni-dominated area west of Baghdad , the military said Tuesday.
Two Marines were killed Tuesday while conducting "security and stability operations" in the province, the military said.
Another Marine was killed in action Monday and a fourth died of wounds received in action Monday in Anbar, the military said in a statement.
The military declined to identify the Marines until it notified the next of kin.
As of Tuesday, 891 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the U.S. Defense Department.
Also Tuesday, a roadside bomb attack on a vehicle near the city of Baqouba, north of Baghdad, killed four civilians and wounded two others, said Emad Kamil Rahim, a local hospital official.
In Samarra , a hotbed of violence 60 miles north of Baghdad , U.S. forces and militants engaged in running gunbattles, the U.S. military said. Four Iraqis were killed and five were wounded, said Ahmed Jaddo, a hospital official. The military said U.S. soldiers returned fire at insurgents and destroyed the house they were in, while a U.S. warplane flattened another house with a 500-pound bomb. CBS/AP; Baghdad