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BAGHDAD (AFP) - Eight US servicemen were killed across Iraq in a series of incidents that have kept May on course to be one of the bloodiest months of the war, the US military reported Sunday.

The spike in US casualties comes amid a four-month-long surge in troop numbers meant to restore stability to the turbulent capital but which has also exposed US troops to greater losses.

Already over a  hundred servicemen have died in May, making for a grim run-up to America's Memorial day at the end of the month when a country increasingly disillusioned by the four-year-old war commemorates its dead.