Baghdad (ANTARA News/AFP) - An American soldier has been killed while conducting operations in southern Iraq, the US military said on Saturday.

"A US service member was killed April 29 while conducting operations in southern Iraq," a statement from the American military said, without giving further details.

The soldier`s death brings to 4,452 the number of American troops to have died in Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein, according to an AFP tally based on independent website www.icasualties.org.

(U.H-RN)

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