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Eight NATO troops killed in Afghanistan blasts
Eight NATO soldiers have been killed in a series of bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan, the military said on Friday.
Kabul: Eight NATO soldiers have been killed
in a series of bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan, the
military said on Friday.
Three died yesterday, another lost his life in a blast
today and four more were killed in second attack later in the
day.
NATO`s US-led International Security Assistance Force did not release the nationalities of the soldiers, in keeping with policy.
Details would be released by the soldiers` home countries, a spokesman said. More than 560 foreign troops were killed last year in Afghanistan, where some 130,000 US-led troops are fighting an insurgency by hardline Taliban Islamists against the Western-backed government of President Hamid Karzai.
PTI
NATO`s US-led International Security Assistance Force did not release the nationalities of the soldiers, in keeping with policy.
Details would be released by the soldiers` home countries, a spokesman said. More than 560 foreign troops were killed last year in Afghanistan, where some 130,000 US-led troops are fighting an insurgency by hardline Taliban Islamists against the Western-backed government of President Hamid Karzai.
PTI