Five US soldiers killed in Afghan unrest

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Source: AFP

KABUL — Five US soldiers have been killed in bombings over the past 24 hours in Afghanistan, NATO's international Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said Sunday.

Two of the troopers were killed in a home-made bomb explosion in the country's south, where the insurgency is most intense, the force said in a statement.

"Two ISAF service members from the United States were killed today in an IED strike in southern Afghanistan," ISAF said, referring to the improvised explosive devices, or roadside bombs, which have been the scourge of foreign troops fighting the Taliban.

The force announced a third IED death in the south shortly after, taking to five the number of American soldiers killed in Afghanistan in past 24 hours.

The statements did not disclose the exact location of the incidents but much of southern Afghanistan is wracked by the Taliban insurgency.

With the last deaths, 38 foreign soldiers, including 25 US nationals, have been killed this year fighting a Taliban insurgency which is at its deadliest since the Islamist regime was ousted by a US-led invasion in 2001.

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1. "Unrest"? nt

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