In Iraq, at least forty-one people were killed in separate bombings Thursday. Twenty Iraqis were killed along with three US Marines at a tribal council meeting in Anbar province. Another eighteen people were killed and eighty wounded in a car bomb attack in the northern city of Mosul. Thirteen Americans, including two civilians, have died in Iraq since Monday. Twenty-nine US servicemembers have been killed in June, making it one of the bloodiest periods for the US military in several months. At least fifty Iraqis have died in the same stretch.