7 NATO Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan War Attacks, October 14, 2010

7 NATO Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan War Attacks

October 14, 2010

Attacks kill 7 foreign troops in Afghanistan

October 14, 2010

KABUL (Reuters) –

Seven foreign troops from the NATO-led force were killed in four separate attacks in Afghanistan on Thursday, NATO said, bringing to 13 the number of troops killed in the last two days.

War in Afghanistan is at its highest levels since the overthrow of the Taliban in late 2001, with rising casualties on all sides of the conflict. More than 2,000 foreign troops have died since then, over half in the last two years.

Three troops with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed by a homemade bomb in the west of the country, ISAF said, while two troops were killed in an insurgent attack in the south.

One service member was killed in the east in an attack by insurgents and a seventh ISAF service member died in another bomb attack in southern Afghanistan.

ISAF did not give any further details on the attacks.

Six foreign troops were killed in three attacks in the east and south of the country on Wednesday.

At least 40 foreign troops have died in Afghanistan this month alone -- nearly three deaths a day. More than 585 troops have died this year compared to 521 for all of 2009.

June was the bloodiest month for foreign forces in Afghanistan with 103 deaths.

The rise in troop deaths will weigh heavily on U.S. President Barack Obama and his administration ahead of a review of the war in Afghanistan in December.

Fighting has intensified in the south of the country since late September when Afghan and NATO forces launched an operation to clear Taliban insurgent strongholds in the militants' heartland around Kandahar.

There are nearly 150,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan, including 100,000 Americans. Obama ordered an extra 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan in December to try and quell the violence but plans to start withdrawing forces from the middle of 2011.

(Reporting by Jonathon Burch; Editing by Sugita Katyal)

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