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US soldier killed in Afghanistan

IRNA

Kabul, Oct 31, IRNA -- The statistics regarding the death of US 
soldiers in Afghanistan during the days of the past week reached 10 
as another one of them got killed on Friday. 
During the course of the newest heavy military clash between the 
joint US-Afghan National Army forces on one side, and Afghan 
para-military forces whom the Americans claim are Taliban remnants on 
the other, one US soldier and one of the assailants on them got killed
on Friday and a large number of both sides` forces got injured. 
An Afghan intelligence source told IRNA on Friday, "The heavy 
ilitary confrontation took place on Friday morning in Arzegan province
when a large group of assailants opened fire on the US-Afghan National
Army forces." 
Arzegan is one of the four southern Afghan provinces, in which the
international assistance forces have stopped offering services due to 
the severeness of working conditions and death threat because of 
military activities of the the groups involved. 
During the past few months, such surprise attacks have been 
launched at dozens of occasions against US and Afghan forces in 
southern and eastern Afghan provinces. 
Last week, in Paktika Province, for instance, Taliban forces 
launched an ambush against the joint US-Afghan National Army forces, 
in which seven US soldiers, three Afghan National Army officers and 
10 Taliban para-military forces got killed in Ashkin region of that 
province. 
Also, two CIA officers got killed in a Taliban ambush in the 
same region two days later. 
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