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US soldier, several Taliban killed in Afghan unrest

* Latest casualty brings to 421 number of soldiers killed in Afghanistan this year

KABUL: A US soldier and several Taliban were killed at the weekend in the latest deadly violence to hit Afghanistan, NATO and Afghan authorities said on Sunday.

The US soldier was killed on Saturday, the third American to lose his life since Friday. A Danish soldier also attached to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed on Friday. “One US service member was killed in an improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan on October 24,” ISAF said in a statement.

It did not give details including the exact location of the incident. The latest casualty brings to 421 the number of international soldiers killed in Afghanistan this year. More than half this year’s casualties have been American nationals, according to an AFP tally based on the independent website www.icasualties.org, which tracks military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The alliance force said that together with Afghan security forces it killed “several” militants in a string of operations in southern and eastern parts of the country on Sunday. It did not give an exact figure. Meanwhile, the Afghan Defence Ministry said eight Taliban were killed in an operation conducted by Afghan and Western troops in an area between Ghazni and the neighbouring province of Khost on Saturday. afp

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