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NATO Soldier, 18 Afghanis Killed in Attacks According to Pro-NATO Sources, Scores Killed According to Pro-Taliban Sources

June 13, 2009

Suicide bomber kills 17 in Afghanistan

updated 3:46 a.m. EDT, Sat June 13, 2009

From Tawab Qurayshi

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) --

A suicide bomber blew himself up near a gas station in southern Afghanistan, killing 17 people and injuring 20 more, an official said Saturday.

The fatalities were nine security guards and eight civilians, said Gov. Abdul Ahad of Gereshk District.

Taliban fighters claimed responsibility for the attack in Helmand province and said they had killed 33 guards, Ahad said.

NATO soldier killed in Afghanistan

Sat Jun 13, 3:46 am ET

KABUL (AFP) –

A soldier in a NATO-led force operating against Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan has been killed in a bomb blast, the alliance said Saturday.

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) released a brief statement that did not give the dead soldier's nationality or details of the incident Friday. Most of the troops in the south are US, British or Canadian.

"An International Security Assistance Force service member was killed as a result of an improvised explosive device strike yesterday in southern Afghanistan," it said.

ISAF does not release details about its casualties, leaving this to the home nation.

A British soldier was killed in a similar bomb blast in the southern province of Helmand Thursday, the British defence ministry announced Friday.

There are nearly 90,000 troops in Afghanistan, most of them under ISAF command and working alongside a US-led coalition and Afghan security forces.

The latest death takes to 135 the number of foreign soldiers to have died in Afghanistan so far this year, most of them in attacks, according to a tally maintained by the icasualties.org website.

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alemarah1.org reported the following news:

Another tank of Americans blew up in Paktia

1 tank of Americans blew up near Kabul

district headquarter attacked in Ghor

1 military vehicle of army blew up in Paktia

6 army soldiers killed in Khost

Mortars fired at American army base in Khost

In explosion 5 Poland soldiers killed in Ghazni

French  army patrol ambush in Kapisa

25 supplying vehicles of Americans destroyed in Paktia

6 army soldiers killed in Wordak

A tank of Americans blew up in Paktia

Mortars fired at American army base in Nangarhar

1 tank of Americans blew up in Paktika

 In Explosion 6 army soldiers killed  in Kandahar

Martyrdom Operation kills and wounded more than 40  Afghani soldiers in Helmand

In 3 ambush 20 solders were killed in Paktia

5 army soldiers killed in Zabul

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