As of Thursday, May 6, 759 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq, according to the Department of Defense. Of those, 552 died as a result of hostile action and 207 died of non-hostile causes, the department said.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 17; Spain 8 Bulgaria 6, Ukraine 4, Thailand 2, Denmark, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia and Poland have reported 1 each.

On or since May 1, 2003 when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 621 U.S. soldiers have died - 443 as a result of hostile action and 178 of non-hostile causes, according to the Defense Department's figures.