The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the Afghanistan has lost yet another soldier in an attack by suspected Taliban militants in the west of the country, local officials told media on Thursday.
An ISAF statement merely said that one of its troops had been killed in the insurgent attack. In keeping with the official policy, it did not identify the dead soldier or the site of the incident.
Elsewhere in the land-locked nation, four policemen died in an ambush by suspected insurgents in Ghoryan district in the western Afghan Herat province on Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said. They were killed when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in Keshk-e-Kuhna district.
Another cop died in an ambush in Herat's Ghoryan district on Wednesday. Ensuing firefight also resulted in the death of a militant while three ultras were detained.
NATO soldiers were first deployed in Afghanistan in 2001 for counter-insurgency operations which led to the ouster of its Taliban-backed government.
According to the independent website iCasualties.org, which monitors military casualties in Afghanistan, over 590 U.S. and NATO-foreign troops have been killed there this year, making it the deadliest yet for the security alliance in the nearly-decade long war against the Taliban.
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