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| Seven soldiers die in Afghanistan | Seven soldiers die in Afghanistan |
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| Four US soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, military forces say. | |
| Three of the Americans were said by Nato to have died in southern Afghanistan on Sunday and the other in the east in a bomb explosion on Monday. | Three of the Americans were said by Nato to have died in southern Afghanistan on Sunday and the other in the east in a bomb explosion on Monday. |
| Three Afghan soldiers were also killed in a separate incident on Sunday by a roadside bomb in Helmand province. | Three Afghan soldiers were also killed in a separate incident on Sunday by a roadside bomb in Helmand province. |
| This has been the deadliest year for foreign troops since the US-led invasion overthrew the Taliban. | |
| In a statement released on Monday, Nato's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said that of those who died in southern Afghanistan, two US soldiers had been killed by a bomb attack and the other in a separate firefight with insurgents. | |
| Revised strategy | |
| Afghanistan's Ministry of Interior said two other Afghan National Army soldiers had been wounded in the Musa Qala district by the same roadside bomb that had killed their three colleagues on Sunday. | Afghanistan's Ministry of Interior said two other Afghan National Army soldiers had been wounded in the Musa Qala district by the same roadside bomb that had killed their three colleagues on Sunday. |
| It also said six soldiers in Kunar province and one in Kandahar had been injured in incidents in the past 24 hours. | It also said six soldiers in Kunar province and one in Kandahar had been injured in incidents in the past 24 hours. |
| The ministry did not give any details of how the soldiers had been hurt. | The ministry did not give any details of how the soldiers had been hurt. |
| As yet there has been no confirmation of any connection between the US and Afghan deaths. | |
| US President Barack Obama is still considering whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, following a report by General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of Nato forces there, which outlined a revised military strategy for the country. | |
| Soldiers from more than 40 countries make up Nato's force of nearly 110,000, two-thirds of them from the US. | |
| The biggest contingents operating in the west of the country are from the United States and Italy. |