Four Task Force Baghdad Soldiers were killed Saturday and another Friday. Elsewhere, a soldier was killed by an improvised explosive device in Baghdad while another died of a suspected heart attack in Kalsu on Thursday, officials said.

Two Task Force Baghdad Soldiers were killed by small-arms fire in the Yusufiyah district, southwest of Baghdad Saturday while another Task Force Baghdad soldier was killed by small-arms fire while on patrol northwest of Baghdad also on Saturday.

Another Task Force Baghdad soldier died when his patrol struck an improvised explosive device in the Adhamiyah district of northern Baghdad.

A Task Force Baghdad soldier died when a suicide car bomber attacked a unit operating in the Abu Ghraib district of western Baghdad Friday. The attack also wounded 11 other soldiers and one Iraqi civilian.

1st Lt. Kevin J. Smith, 28, of Brandon, Fla., died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV. Smith was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 76th Field Artillery, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.