FACTBOX - Details of Reuters staff killed in Iraq

(Reuters) - The U.S. Defense Department's inspector general, the Pentagon's investigative agency, on Monday said U.S. soldiers who killed a Reuters journalist in Iraq acted within military rules, but the Army's probe of the incident was tainted by its failure to preserve evidence.

Seven Reuters staff have been killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Details of the deaths follow:

2003:

* April 8 - Reuters Ukrainian cameraman Taras Protsyuk killed by a U.S. tank shell fired at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad.

* August 17 - Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana, a Palestinian, shot and killed by U.S. troops as he films outside Abu Ghraib prison.

2004:

* November 1 - Dhia Najim, an Iraqi freelance cameraman filming for Reuters, killed in Ramadi. His colleagues and family said they believed he had been shot by a U.S. sniper. The U.S. military said he died in a gun battle between Marines and insurgents.

2005:

* August 28 - Waleed Khaled, a Reuters Television soundman is shot and killed in the Hay al-Adil district of west Baghdad. Cameraman Haider Kadhem is wounded.