FoxNews.com is echoing the STL report here Report: Five Marines Killed in Iraq:
Elsewhere, U.S. Marines fought pitched battles against about 150 gunmen in Qaim (search), near the Syrian border, the city police chief said. Five Marines and scores of insurgents were killed in the 14-hour battle, an embedded journalist from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. A U.S. military spokesman could not confirm the report.