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9 US Soldiers Killed in Attack in Afghanistan
New York Times - 2 hours ago
By CARLOTTA GALL KABUL, Afghanistan, July 13 - Taliban insurgents mounted a large-scale attack on an American forward operating base in eastern Afghanistan in the early hours of Sunday, killing nine American soldiers in fierce fighting that continued ...
Ten foreign troops killed in Afghanistan in militant attacks AFP
Nine NATO-led soldiers die in intensified Afghan battles Xinhua

07/13/08 :
DoD Identifies Army Casualties
Spc. Samson A. Mora, 28, of Dededo, Guam...assigned to 1st Battalion, 294th Infantry Regiment, Guam Army National Guard...died July 10 in Babo Kheyl, Afghanistan, from wounds suffered when their vehicle was struck by an IED.

07/13/08 :
DoD Identifies Army Casualties
Spc. Brian S. Leon Guerrero, 34, of Hagatna, Guam...assigned to 1st Battalion, 294th Infantry Regiment, Guam Army National Guard...died July 10 in Babo Kheyl, Afghanistan, from wounds suffered when their vehicle was struck by an IED.

07/13/08 AP:
Afghan attack kills 9 U.S. troops
A multi-pronged militant assault on a small, remote U.S. base killed nine American soldiers Sunday in one of the deadliest attacks on U.S. troops since the 2001 invasion, a Western official said.

07/13/08 BBC:
At least eight US soldiers killed
At least eight US soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan in clashes with Taleban militants. US commander Daniel Dwyer told the BBC the soldiers had been killed in clashes in the north-east of the country.

07/13/08 Reuters:
Coalition soldier killed in Helmand province
A roadside bomb killed a soldier from the U.S.-led coalition force on Sunday in the southern province of Helmand, the U.S. military said.

07/13/08 AFP:
Suicide attack in Afghanistan kills 24
At least 24 people were killed on Sunday in a suicide attack at a crowded bazaar in southern Afghanistan, police said, raising an earlier toll. "Some people died in the hospital. We have now 20 civilians and four police officers killed,"

07/13/08 BBC:
Forces in Afghanistan 'for years'
The UK's armed forces are set to remain in Afghanistan for "a few years", Air Chief Marshall Sir Jock Stirrup, the chief of defence staff, has said.

07/13/08 Quqnoos:
Body of NSP chief found beheaded
THE DECAPITATED body of the National Solidarity Programme’s (NSP) Nimroz chief has been found by residents three days after he went missing.
07/13/08 quqnoos: Parliment member abducted in Logar Province

GUNMEN have kidnapped a Member of Parliament in the eastern province of Logar, which borders the capital Kabul, a local official said. Dr Abdul Wali Ahmadzai, the MP for Logar, was kidnapped on Saturday morning...

07/13/08 Reuters:
4 Taliban killed, six wounded in northeastern Nuristan
Four Taliban insurgents were killed and six more were wounded in an operation by Afghan forces in northeastern Nuristan on Saturday, a district governor said.
07/13/08 Reuters: Roadside bomb kills 3 policemen in Zabul
In neighbouring Zabul, three police officers were killed when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle late on Satruday, police said.

07/13/08 Reuters:
Taliban insurgents kill two female police officers
Taliban insurgents killed two women detective police officers and dumped their bodies in a ditch in a graveyard in Ghazni province on Saturday evening, a senior provincial police officer said.

07/13/08 AP:
NATO soldier dies of wounds in Afghanistan
NATO says one of its soldiers died of wounds sustained in northern Afghanistan. NATO said in a statement that the soldier was caught in an explosion in the country's north. The alliance did not identify the soldier's nationality.

Courtesy of iCasualties.org: Operation Enduring Freedom

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