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NATO soldier killed in Afghanistan

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Khost, Afghanistan (AFP) Aug 14, 2007
A soldier with the NATO-led international force was killed Tuesday and five Afghan troops wounded in an ambush on a patrol in eastern Afghanistan, military officials said.

Three other soldiers with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were wounded in separate incidents across insurgency-plagued Afghanistan, where NATO has deployed around 36,000 troops to fight the Taliban.

"An ISAF soldier was killed today during a field ambush attempt," Major Christine Nelson-chung told AFP. The attack was in the eastern province of Paktia, she said.

The soldier's name and nationality were not released.

Five Afghan soldiers were injured in the incident, an Afghan army general told AFP.

The latest death brings the number of international troops killed this year to 135, according to an AFP count, most of them in action as the Taliban insurgency has intensified. Five have been killed since Saturday.

Also Tuesday, two ISAF soldiers were injured when their convoy was ambushed by Taliban insurgents in the southern province of Helmand, an ISAF spokesman said.

A third ISAF soldier was wounded in the east, the Kabul-based spokesman said, without giving details of the incident.

Attacks by the Taliban movement, which was in government between 1996 and 2001, have increased in the past two years despite efforts by international and Afghan security forces to root out the insurgents.

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London (AFP) Aug 10, 2007
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