9 US Soldiers Killed in Afghan Attack
Source: Alalam.ir, 14-07-2008
KABUL--At least 9 US soldiers have been killed and 15 others wounded in an attack on a US military base in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Monday.
The assault on the American troops began around 4:30 am Sunday in a dangerous region close to the Pakistan border and lasted throughout the day, they added.
The attackers fired machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars from homes in the village of Wanat in the mountainous northeastern province of Kunar, NATO's ISAF force said in a statement.
ISAF, which draws nearly 53,000 soldiers from about 40 countries, initially did not give the nationalities of those killed, but hours later it announced that they were all American.
Four Afghan soldiers were also wounded in the attack, NATO said.
NATO statement also said that a tenth foreign soldier has been killed in a bomb blast in Helmand province of southern Afghanistan. However, it did not release the nationality of the killed.
The attack on the US military base is one of the deadliest battles so far for the foreign forces that invaded Afghanistan in late 2001.
Sunday's deaths take to 133 the number of foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan this year amid a spike in the insurgency-linked violence.
The attack on the military outpost came as a bomber targeted police in a busy bazaar in southern Uruzgan province, killing 24 Afghans including children, police officials said.
In bloody carnage in several parts of Afghanistan, at least 40 insurgents were also killed in two days of fighting in southern Helmand province, the US military announced.
Afghan officials allege militants are being recruited and trained in Pakistan, coming across the border to launch attacks and destabilize the government of President Hamid Karzai.
Foreign Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta called Sunday for the region to work together to deal with the violence -- in a reference to Pakistan.
In Kunar meanwhile, an Afghan official said foreign war planes had bombed the area during fighting around the base, and there may also have been civilian casualties.
In the south of the country, an attacker with bombs strapped to his body rammed a motorbike into a police car in the bazaar in Uruzgan, police said.
All of the dead were civilians except for four policemen, said Uruzgan police chief Juma Gul Hemat.
KABUL--At least 9 US soldiers have been killed and 15 others wounded in an attack on a US military base in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Monday.
The assault on the American troops began around 4:30 am Sunday in a dangerous region close to the Pakistan border and lasted throughout the day, they added.
The attackers fired machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars from homes in the village of Wanat in the mountainous northeastern province of Kunar, NATO's ISAF force said in a statement.
ISAF, which draws nearly 53,000 soldiers from about 40 countries, initially did not give the nationalities of those killed, but hours later it announced that they were all American.
Four Afghan soldiers were also wounded in the attack, NATO said.
NATO statement also said that a tenth foreign soldier has been killed in a bomb blast in Helmand province of southern Afghanistan. However, it did not release the nationality of the killed.
The attack on the US military base is one of the deadliest battles so far for the foreign forces that invaded Afghanistan in late 2001.
Sunday's deaths take to 133 the number of foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan this year amid a spike in the insurgency-linked violence.
The attack on the military outpost came as a bomber targeted police in a busy bazaar in southern Uruzgan province, killing 24 Afghans including children, police officials said.
In bloody carnage in several parts of Afghanistan, at least 40 insurgents were also killed in two days of fighting in southern Helmand province, the US military announced.
Afghan officials allege militants are being recruited and trained in Pakistan, coming across the border to launch attacks and destabilize the government of President Hamid Karzai.
Foreign Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta called Sunday for the region to work together to deal with the violence -- in a reference to Pakistan.
In Kunar meanwhile, an Afghan official said foreign war planes had bombed the area during fighting around the base, and there may also have been civilian casualties.
In the south of the country, an attacker with bombs strapped to his body rammed a motorbike into a police car in the bazaar in Uruzgan, police said.
All of the dead were civilians except for four policemen, said Uruzgan police chief Juma Gul Hemat.
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