" BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Five U.S. soldiers were killed south of Baghdad on Saturday in two separate incidents, the U.S. military said Sunday.
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A woman mourns Saturday at a relative's grave in Najaf. Families across Iraq remembered loved ones Saturday.
One soldier was killed by small arms fire while on patrol in southeast Baghdad. The other four soldiers were killed in an explosion during combat operations south of the capital, the military said. Four soldiers were wounded in the blast.
The military said all nine soldiers were part of Task Force Marne, which operates in Baghdad and on the southern outskirts of the capital city.
The latest deaths bring to 3,689 the number of U.S. military personnel who have died in the Iraq war since it began in 2003."
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