NATO reports death in Afghan war in record month

A bomb attack killed a US service member in Afghanistan, NATO said on Sunday, doubling the number of American soldiers killed in the country this year compared with 2008, according to an AFP tally.The NATO-run International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the soldier died from an improvised explosive device (IED), the biggest killer of foreign troops in the eight-year battle to contain a Taliban insurgency."An ISAF service member from the United States died following an IED strike in southern Afghanistan Saturday," the force said in a statement.

NATO reported on Sunday the 91st foreign soldier killed in what has been a record month for international troop deaths in Afghanistan.In other violence, more than two dozen rebels were killed across the troubled nation, authorities said separately.The soldier was killed by a Taliban-style improvised explosive device (IED) in the south of the country on Saturday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.It came after NATO had already reported on Saturday the killing of five other soldiers in similar attacks in the volatile south.

Two NATO soldiers have died in a bomb attack in southern Afghanistan, the international alliance said Saturday.The soldiers, part of NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), were killed Friday by an improvised explosive device or IED, a weapon blamed for the majority of casualties among foreign forces."Two ISAF servicemembers died following an improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan yesterday," it said. The nationalities of the soldiers was not disclosed.

A member of the Afghan army who acted as a prayer leader for troops has shot dead a British soldier in the year's first insider attack, according to officials in the region.

Two foreign soldiers battling the Taliban in southern Afghanistan were killed Sunday in a bomb attack, NATO said.The deaths bring to 536 the number of foreign troops to die in the Afghan war so far this year, compared to 521 for all of 2009, according to an AFP tally based on that kept by icasualties.org.NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the soldiers "died following an improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan," referring to roadside and remote-control bombs laid by the Taliban.

NATO announced the death of another US soldier, taking to three the number of US troops killed in Afghanistan on Sunday.NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said a US soldier died in an improvised bomb explosion in southern Afghanistan, hours after announcing the death of two other US troopers in a similar incident in the region.

A bomb blast in Afghanistan's restive south killed two NATO soldiers, hours after the death of an American trooper in a separate attack, a statement said Saturday."Two ISAF service members were killed in southern Afghanistan as a result of an IED strike yesterday," said a statement from NATO's International Security Assistance Force, referring to an improvised explosive device.ISAF did not give their nationalities.

Seven soldiers from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed in a bomb attack in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, the military said."Seven International Security Assistance Force service members died following an improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan today," ISAF said in a statement.It did not say which country they were from, which area they were killed in or give further details of the incident, in line with policy.