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Afghan clash claims U.S. soldier
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published July 26, 2006
KABUL, Afghanistan - A bomb exploded near a taxi on a busy Kabul road Tuesday, killing two Afghans, and a U.S. soldier and seven militants died in fighting in the east - the latest wave of violence threatening Western attempts to rebuild Afghanistan. The U.S.-led coalition announced it had killed more than 600 Taliban rebels in the past six weeks during an operation with Afghan forces to crush insurgents in the south. The Afghan government, meanwhile, launched an urgent appeal for more than $75-million to tackle an "imminent food crisis" caused by prolonged drought. Tuesday's bomb in Kabul killed a man and woman riding in a taxi and wounded four other people, police official Faiz Ahmad Hotaq. In eastern Kunar province, a U.S. soldier was killed Monday in a gunbattle with militants, said Col. Tom Collins, a coalition spokesman. At least 258 members of the U.S. military have died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. Seven militants were killed Monday in eastern Paktika province during clashes with coalition soldiers. One coalition soldier was slightly wounded, a coalition statement said. More than 10,000 U.S.-led troops have fanned out across the south in an attempt to break the Taliban's hold on the region.
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