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Marjah Offensive: Five foreign soldiers killed in southern Afghanistan
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ennahar 13 February, 2010 05:24:00
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KABUL (Afghanistan) - Two foreign soldiers were killed Saturday in southern Afghanistan in addition to the three Americans who had died that morning in a bomb blast, said the NATO force, without specifying whether it was during the Marjah offensive.
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"A member of the International Force for Security Assistance (ISAF) was killed in the explosion of a missile in the south today and another died in a firefight with light weapons" also in the south, we read in a terse statement from the NATO force that does not specify their nationalities. "Three U.S. soldiers of ISAF were killed after the detonation of a missile in the south,"had indicated a previous text of the ISAF, without elaborating either.
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Neither text did not specify whether these soldiers were killed in the Marjah offensive, where 15,000 soldiers of international and Afghan forces - Americans in the lead - launched in the night, a major offensive against the Taliban stronghold in Helmand province.
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In the afternoon, a captain of the Afghan army had told AFP that a U.S. soldier of ISAF was killed and three others wounded in a suicide attack against their convoy on the outskirts of Kandahar, 200 km west of Marjah.
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With these five deaths, the number of foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan since the start of the year is 71, according to an AFP count. The Taliban insurgency, which has increased considerably over the past two years has caused 520 deaths in the ranks of international forces in 2009, by far the highest record in eight years of war.
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2010 will be last year of ISAF in Afghanistan
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ennahar 13 February, 2010 05:24:00
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KABUL (Afghanistan) - Two foreign soldiers were killed Saturday in southern Afghanistan in addition to the three Americans who had died that morning in a bomb blast, said the NATO force, without specifying whether it was during the Marjah offensive.
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"A member of the International Force for Security Assistance (ISAF) was killed in the explosion of a missile in the south today and another died in a firefight with light weapons" also in the south, we read in a terse statement from the NATO force that does not specify their nationalities. "Three U.S. soldiers of ISAF were killed after the detonation of a missile in the south,"had indicated a previous text of the ISAF, without elaborating either.
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Neither text did not specify whether these soldiers were killed in the Marjah offensive, where 15,000 soldiers of international and Afghan forces - Americans in the lead - launched in the night, a major offensive against the Taliban stronghold in Helmand province.
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In the afternoon, a captain of the Afghan army had told AFP that a U.S. soldier of ISAF was killed and three others wounded in a suicide attack against their convoy on the outskirts of Kandahar, 200 km west of Marjah.
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With these five deaths, the number of foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan since the start of the year is 71, according to an AFP count. The Taliban insurgency, which has increased considerably over the past two years has caused 520 deaths in the ranks of international forces in 2009, by far the highest record in eight years of war.
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2010 will be last year of ISAF in Afghanistan