US airstrikes kill 22 Taliban in Afghanistan: coalition

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NATO soldier killed in southern Afghanistan
A NATO soldier has been killed in an explosion in troubled southern Afghanistan, the alliance said Wednesday. The ISAF troops were on patrol in Nahri Sarraj district of Helmand province on Tuesday when a blast struck their convoy, a military statement said. "One ISAF soldier died from an explosion during a patrol in Nahri Sarraj district," it said. ISAF do not release the nationality of casualties as a matter of policy leaving this and the notification of next of kin to a victim's native country. In the same province Tuesday another ISAF soldier was killed during a firefight with Taliban insurgents in the neighbouring district of Sangin. The latest deaths take to 102 the number of foreign soldiers killed in the country this year, according to an AFP tally. Violence in Afghanistan is on the upswing, despite the presence of 70,000 multinational troops, some under US command, some under NATO.

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Kabul (AFP) June 25, 2008
US-led coalition airstrikes killed 22 Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday after insurgents launched the latest in a string of attacks on government buildings, the coalition said.

Rebels armed with rockets and machineguns attacked the Sarobi district centre in eastern Paktika province, which borders Pakistan, but were pushed back by Afghan forces, a coalition statement and a spokesman said.

Militants later attacked the district centre of neighboring Gomal, forcing the Afghan security forces to call in coalition warplanes for help, the spokesman said.

"When coalition air support arrived, the 22 militants who attacked the (Gomal) District Centre were positively identified and killed," the coalition statement said.

In the neighboring province of Paktia, Taliban fighters attacked another district centre, triggering clashes which ended with no casualties, a coalition spokesman who would not be named told AFP.

Violence from a Taliban-led insurgency has spiked in Afghanistan this month with a particular surge in activity in eastern Afghanistan in recent days.

NATO warplanes killed 15 militants in Paktia on Tuesday, an Afghan official said, while the coalition said on Monday that 55 militants died in fighting in Paktika over the weekend.

The US commander in the region said attacks by Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan were up 40 percent in the first five months of 2008 compared with the same period last year.

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