BAGHDAD - An American soldier assigned to the US marines died on Friday after he was wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq's restive western province of Al-Anbar, the US military said Saturday.
The bomb targeted his vehicle on Thursday near Diyara, it said, without providing further details.
The total number of US service personnel who have died in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion now stands at 1,638, according to a Pentagon figures.
05/28/2005 16:21 GMT