Two US soldiers dead

KABUL (AFP) - Two US soldiers in Afghanistan died Thursday after separate insurgent attacks, NATO said, compounding the bloodiest year yet for American forces in the Afghan war. NATOs International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said both had died following insurgent attacks, one in the countrys east, the other in the south. ISAF confirmed to AFP that both were Americans. A total of 326 US soldiers have been killed in the Afghan war in 2010, compared with 317 for all of 2009, according to AFP figures based on the independent icasualties.org website. The number of international troops killed in Afghanistan so far in 2010 stands at 493, not far off the 2009 total of 521.

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