soldiers were killed in an attack on a combat outpost in southeastern Paktika province

soldiers were killed in an attack on a combat outpost in southeastern Paktika province on Saturday.Three British soldiers were killed in roadside bomb blasts and a rocket grenade attack at the weekend in Helmand.All three died in operations near Gereshk, Helmand's main industrial city in the Helmand River valley where the U.S. Marines are the biggest wave of 17,000 new combat troops ordered into Afghanistan by U.S. and NATO-led troops in Afghanistan and to destabilize President Hamid Karzai's Western-backed government.Washington is pouring in extra troops in part to ensure security for August 20 presidential elections, the second in Afghanistan's short history as a democracy.Two U.S. Germany has about 3,700 troops in Afghanistan, most of them in the north.In eastern Paktia, another U.S. soldier was killed during an engagement with insurgents, a U.S military spokeswoman said.NEW STRATEGYThe U.S. Northern Afghanistan is considered relatively safe compared with Taliban strongholds in the south and east.Kunduz police chief Abdul Razaaq said two Afghan civilians were also killed Chief Petty Officer Brian Naranjo, a spokesman for U.S.

forces in Afghanistan, confirmed the dead soldiers in Kunduz were American but gave no further details."There was a joint police and NATO patrol which was hit by a roadside bomb to the east to the city," Razaaq told Reuters.The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks in Kunduz and Kandahar, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said.German Defense Ministry spokesman Thomas Raabe said in Berlin a NATO team training Afghan forces was traveling in an armored humvee vehicle when it was hit by the bomb. military spokesman said.Kandahar is adjacent to Helmand province, where thousands of Marines launched a new assault last week to wrest the initiative from the Taliban in a province which supplies most of the opium poppy that funds the insurgency.The roadside bombing in Kunduz province was the worst security incident involving foreign troops in the north for several weeks. KABUL (Reuters) - Seven U.S. soldiers were killed in attacks across Afghanistan on Monday, including four in one bombing in the north, amid a spike in violence as the U.S. military pushed ahead with a big new offensive, officials said.

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