As five more soldiers died in a recent encounter in Iraq added to a number of recorded deaths makes this year as the deadliest based on Associated Press (AP) report.
With the recorded annual toll of 852 deaths in U.
S.
military workforce in Iraq, AP said this year is the highest since the beginning of the war in 2003.
Although reports claimed that there was apparent reduction of casualty in both camps between the U.
S.
and Iraqi troops in recent months, still lives of soldiers were significant as the war continues.
Records showed deaths decreased in recent months: October, 39, September, 65, and August, 84.
Rear Adm.
Gregory Smith, director of the Multi-National Force-Iraq's communications division, said that the two bomb attacks caused the deaths of five more U.
S.
military in separate incidents.
In 2004, 850 U.
S.
soldiers died as most of them were involved in Washington's campaign to penetrate home bases of Sunni militants in the areas like that of Fallujah and Najaf.
This year, the American troops totaled to 165,000 soldiers, which was the highest recorded number since U.
S.
deployment in Iraq began.
Maj.
Winfield Danielson, a U.
S.
military spokesman in Baghdad, said that increasing the number of U.
S.
troops means that the American forces need more backup in extinguishing the large bases of Iraqi communities as they get closer to the core groups of its raging insurgents.
With more soldiers out for battle, Danielson added, contributes to a higher incident of casualties, noting we are already getting into the places considered as safe houses of militant Iraqi troops.