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Eugene

(61,900 posts) Sun Jul 8, 2012, 03:39 PM Jul 2012

Insurgent attacks kill 30 in Afghanistan (including 6 NATO troops)

Source: Associated Press

The Associated Press Posted: Jul 8, 2012 12:38 PM ET Last Updated: Jul 8, 2012 3:03 PM ET

Roadside bombs and insurgent attacks killed 24 Afghans, including five policemen, and six members of the U.S.-led coalition in southern Afghanistan where militants are trying to reclaim territory, Afghan and NATO authorities said Sunday.

A surge in Afghan and coalition forces during the past two years routed Taliban fighters from many of their strongholds in the south, but the insurgents stepped up their attacks this summer to take back key areas.

The civilians, including women and children, were killed in a trio of blasts in Arghistan district, along Afghanistan's border with Pakistan. Officials said six NATO service members were also killed in eastern Afghanistan. NATO did not provide the nationalities of the soldiers killed.

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Sun Jul 8, 2012, 08:38 PM

Jul 2012

Source: Reuters

Bombs, clashes in Afghanistan kill 35 including seven NATO soldiers

KABUL | Sun Jul 8, 2012 5:47pm EDT

(Reuters) - At least 35 people, including seven NATO soldiers, were killed in a string of roadside bombs and clashes on Sunday, one of the most violent days in the country for months.

A bomb killed six NATO troops in the east, the coalition said without elaborating, after an insurgent attack in the south killed one foreign soldier.

Twenty-eight Afghan civilians and police were killed in southern Kandahar and Helmand provinces, officials said.

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