Friday, December 17, 2010
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Afghanistan continues to experience fatal attacks




In four separate incidents, three international aid workers, three Kabul court staff and seven American soldiers were killed in different regions of Afghanistan.

Parliamentary elections have increased the occurrence of violence since Taliban has condemned the elections as an American ploy.

International Security Assistance Force, the NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan reports that the American soldiers were killed in two separate roadside bombs in southern Afghanistan.

This brings the number of soldiers killed in the past three days in Afghanistan to 14.

According to a recent iCasualies reports, the number of international soldiers killed in Afghanistan has increased in the first of half of the current year with 2000 foreign soldiers killed, of which 1226 were Americans, 331 were British, and 151 were Canadians at top of the list.

In the meantime, Taliban paramilitary forces attacked a convoy carrying Kabul court staff this morning and killed three passengers and injured another 12.

Three OXFAM aid workers along with two other aides were killed by handmade road bombs in Badakhshan Province.

Currently 120 thousand troops from 46 countries are in combat in Afghanistan under the command of US General David Petraeus.

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