Roadside bomb kills two NATO soldiers in eastern Afghanistan

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Roadside bomb kills two NATO soldiers in eastern Afghanistan

2011-07-29 20:04:48 GMT+7 (ICT)

KABUL (BNO NEWS) -- A roadside bomb killed two coalition service members in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.

ISAF said two of its service members were killed as a result of an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in eastern Afghanistan. As usual, the multinational force gave no other details about the incident, including the exact locations.

The nationalities of the service members were also not immediately disclosed. "It is ISAF policy to defer casualty identification procedures to the relevant national authorities," a brief statement said.

Coalition casualties in Afghanistan have been rising sharply in recent years, with a total coalition death toll of 709 in 2010, making it the deadliest year for international troops since the war began in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.

So far this year, at least 330 coalition service members have been killed in Afghanistan. Most troops are killed in the country's south, which is plagued by IED attacks on troops and civilians. Most of the casualties are American.

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[maidu]

Sorry to hear that. Each one of the 'Coalition Forces' members are someone's sister/brother or son/daughter or possibly someone's parent. They're most often young men who travel thousands of miles to try and assist anger-crazed people in a thankless part of the world. If I believed in a Christian God, I might say "a Godless part of the world", but alas, crazed belief in any deity is a major factor for the incessant problems over there.