In Iraq, the Pentagon has announced the deaths of nine more U.S. servicemembers. This brings the U.S. death toll in Iraq to 3,144. At least two soldiers died when assailants raided a U.S. military outpost in Tarmiyah in what has been described as one of the biggest assaults in months on a U.S. military base. Suicide bombers began the attack by driving cars laden with explosives into the base. Gunmen then opened fire.