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Afghan air strike kills civilians, Taliban fighters

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Explosion kills ISAF soldier, wounds 5 in southern Afghanistan
January 21st, 2008 Posted: 01:43 AM ET

(CNN) — A soldier with NATO’s International Security Assistance Force was killed Sunday and five others were wounded by a blast in southern Afghanistan, ISAF reported.



The soldiers were patrolling in vehicles when they were hit by an explosion, the military said.

The wounded soldiers were expected to survive, the statement said.

The nationalities of the soldiers were not provided.

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January 21st, 2008
2 U.S. troops killed in separate operations
Posted: 01:46 AM ET

BAGHDAD (CNN) — Two U.S. troops died in Iraq Saturday — a soldier killed by a roadside bomb blast on the southern outskirts of Baghdad and a Marine killed during a combat operation in al Anbar province, the U.S. military said.

Since the Iraq war began in March 2003, 3,929 U.S. service members have been killed, 25 of them in January.

The soldier’s death happened in Arab Jabour, a rural area described recently by a U.S. military official as an al Qaeda in Iraq safe haven.


U.S. and Iraqi forces have focused on the area over the last several days, an operation dubbed Marne Thunderbolt.

The military said the marine who was killed was assigned to Multi-National Force -West.

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The drug of combat
Romeo A. Dallaire, Special to the National Post Published: Wednesday, January 16, 2008

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NATO soldier killed in Afghanistan
Sunday, January 20, 2008
38 minutes ago

KABUL (AFP) — A soldier with the NATO-led force fighting the Taliban-led insurgency in southern Afghanistan was killed in an explosion that also wounded five other troopers, the alliance's force said Monday.

The International Security Assistance Force soldiers were in vehicles that were struck by the blast on Saturday, ISAF said in a statement.

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