KABUL: Five US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday, NATO said. "Four soldiers were killed in eastern Afghanistan." NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said. "The fifth died in an insurgent attack in the south of the country, where the insurgency is at its fiercest," it said in a separate statement. The deaths occurred, a day after eight NATO troops were killed in bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan. French military officials said on Tuesday that a soldier serving in Afghanistan was killed when the armoured vehicle he was travelling in, tumbled into a ravine.
The United States is bearing the greatest burden, losing 1,267 soldiers since the war began in late 2001.