NATO and US casualties on the rise in Afghanistan

On Sunday the US/NATO force in Afghanistan suffered the largest number of casualties in a 24-hour period in more than three years.

Nine American troops were killed and as many as 15 were injured in a day-long battle with insurgents who attacked a US base in Dara-e-Pech in the eastern province of Kunar. Another soldier died in a roadside bombing in the volatile Sangin district in southern Helmand province.

James Cogan is giving an account of the latest developments in: “US/NATO casualties climb in Afghanistan”, an article on the WSWS:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jul2008/afgh-j15.shtml

See also
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/afgh-j26.shtml