BAGHDAD (AP) – A minibus exploded Monday in a Baghdad market, killing at least six people – a brutal reminder of the dangers facing Iraqis, who only hours ago were joyously united after their underdog national soccer team won the prestigious Asian Cup.

The American military also said three soldiers had been killed in fighting in Anbar province west of Baghdad on Thursday. The deaths raised to at least 3,651 members of the American military who have died since the start of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

At least 93 people were killed or found dead across Iraq over the last two days.

In political developments, the largest Sunni Arab bloc said the government’s response to its demands and threat to pull out of the Cabinet this week slammed the door to reforms.

The Iraq Accordance Front, which has six Cabinet members and 44 of parliament’s 275 seats, has suspended its membership in Prime Minister al-Maliki’s government and threatened to quit altogether this week if he doesn’t meet certain demands.

The move would plunge the American-backed government deeper into crisis as parliament prepares to begin a monthlong break in August without passing key legislation demanded by Washington to promote national unity and stem support for the Sunni-led insurgency.

The government has called the threat blackmail and said the Sunni bloc had contributed in creating some of the very policies it now criticized.