7 US troops killed in Afghanistan, August death toll reaches 62

by Amitjha | August 29, 2010 at 01:53 am

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The Afghan peace mission is costing heavily to US forces. In latest killing seven brave soldiers lost their lives on Sunday fighting the insurgents in Northern and Eastern province of Afghanistan. Meanwhile forces found the bodies of five campigners on Sunday for the female candidate in western province of Herat.

Two servicemen died in bombings Sunday in southern Afghanistan, while two others were killed in a bomb attack in the south on Saturday and three in fighting in the east the same day, NATO said. Their identities and other details were being withheld until relatives could be notified.

With the death of seven soldiers death toll of US soldiers reached 42 in the month of August reached. Earlier in July this figure was 66. In total 62 foreign troops died in Afghanistan this month including seven British Soldiers.

No insurgent group took the responsibility of attack so far. Insurgents are trying their best to scare people to stay away from the September 18 poll, they are attacking candidates and threatening them to face consequences.

NATO said eight insurgents were killed in joint Afghan-NATO operations Saturday night in the province of Paktiya, including a Taliban commander, Naman, accused of coordinating roadside bomb attacks and the movement of ammunition, supplies and fighters.

Automatic weapons, grenades, magazines and bomb-making material were found in buildings in Zormat district along the mountainous border with Pakistan. Afghan leaders frequently complain that Pakistan is doing to little to prevent cross-border incursions and shut down insurgent safe havens in its territory.

Just south in Khost province, U.S. and Afghan troops fought back simultaneous attacks Saturday by around 50 insurgents wearing American uniforms and suicide vests on Forward Operating Base Salerno and nearby Camp Chapman, where seven CIA employees died in a suicide attack in December.

The early-morning morning raids appeared to be part of an insurgent strategy to step up attacks in widely scattered parts of the country as the U.S. focuses its resources on the battle around Kandahar.

Twenty-one attackers died while the Afghan Defense Ministry said two Afghan soldiers were killed and three wounded in the fighting. Four U.S. troops were wounded, NATO officials said.