US Iraq deaths 'at four-year low'

We could have guessed this from the complete lack of Iraq reportage for the last 6 weeks.

US military deaths in Iraq are said to have fallen to their lowest monthly level for four years, after about 20 soldiers were reported killed in May.

The figures for Iraqi civilian deaths vary according to different sources, but have also dropped.

Most accounts put them at about 530 - or about half the levels seen in March and April.