Three coalition service members die in Afghan attack

2010-11-14 01:41:37 GMT+7 (ICT)

KABUL (BNO NEWS) -- Three coalition service members were killed in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.

ISAF said the service members were killed as a result of an insurgent attack in Afghanistan's south, but provided no other details about the nature of the attack. The alliance did not reveal the nationality of the service members either.

"It is ISAF policy to defer casualty identification procedures to the relevant national authorities," ISAF said.

Coalition casualties in Afghanistan have been rising sharply this year, with around 90 fatalities in July alone, making it the deadliest month for U.S. forces since the war began on October 7, 2001 in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.

The council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) eventually declared that the attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people from scores of countries, was considered an attack on all NATO nations. The NATO-backed war aims to defeat the Taliban and other insurgent groups in the country.

So far this year, more than 620 coalition service members have been killed in action. Most of them were American and died in Afghanistan's war-torn southern region. In 2009, the total death toll stood at 521.

On Friday, one coalition service member was killed as a result of an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan. His nationality was not immediately released.

And in Kabul, one Afghan civilian was killed when a suicide bomber detonated his vehicle near a combined Afghan National Army and ISAF convoy which was departing Camp Julien. The alliance confirmed that one civilian was killed, along with the suicide bomber who detonated his vehicle.

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