US Soldier, 24 Afghanis Killed in War Attacks, According to August 4 War Attacks

Afghan, NATO forces kill 17 Taliban in south

4. August 2008, 03:31
By AMIR SHAH, Associated Press Writer

Afghan and NATO troops targeted a group of (alleged) Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, killing 17 (of them) and wounding six others, the Defense Ministry said Monday.

Four police were killed separately in a militant ambush in central Ghazni province, a provincial official said.

The joint force clashed Sunday with (Taliban fighters) in the Marjah district of Helmand province, the ministry said in a statement. The troops seized weapons and ammunition belonging to them.

Southern Afghanistan is the center of the Taliban-led (resistance) that this year has claimed more than 2,700 lives, according to an Associated Press tally of figures provided by Afghan and Western officials.

Also Sunday, (Taliban fighters) ambushed a two-vehicle police convoy in Ghazni's Zana Khan district, killing four officers and wounding seven, said Sayed Ismail Jahangir, a spokesman for the provincial governor.

Separately, the U.S.-led coalition said its troops killed several (Taliban fighters) and captured one they had sought in the northern province of Baghlan on Sunday. The troops were searching for a (Taliban fighter) wanted in connection with planting roadside bombs, it said.

A coalition statement Monday did not specify the number of (Taliban fighters) killed.

On Monday morning, two Taliban fighters died when a mine they were planting exploded prematurely in the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province in the country's south, said Gen. Abdul Raziq, a border security commander.

International soldier, Afghan judge killed

3. August 2008, 13:49
AFP -

A US-led coalition soldier was killed in a bomb attack in Kabul on Sunday and a judge was gunned down in southern Afghanistan, authorities said, in new attacks.

Another soldier was wounded in the bomb blast on the southeastern outskirts of the capital, the coalition said in a statement.

"A coalition service member was killed and another wounded when their convoy struck an IED (improvised explosive device) this morning in Kabul," it said.

It did not release the nationalities of the soldiers. Most troops in the coalition are from the United States, which has about 32,000 soldiers in Afghanistan to help fight mainly Taliban fighters.

The international forces in the war-wracked country have lost 150 soldiers in Afghanistan this year, most of them killed in attacks. Six were killed Friday in bombings in the east, where most foreign troops are Americans.

Afghan police said the bomb was planted on a dirt road and appeared to have been remotely detonated. There were no civilian casualties.

In the southern province of Helmand, gunmen on a motorbike shot and killed a mid-level judge early Sunday, a government official said, blaming the attack on the Taliban.

Engineer Latif Khan had been a judge in the Gereshk district court, provincial government spokesman Daud Ahmadi told AFP.

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