Thursday, May 26 was another black day for international forces fighting since late 2001, the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. Nine NATO soldiers were killed. Eight of them were Americans and were victims of the explosion of homemade bombs in the south. Earlier in the day, a soldier of the Atlantic Alliance had perished in the crash, so far unexplained, a helicopter in south-east.
NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) which operates in the country has provided no details about the circumstances of the blast and did not report either the number of possible casualties. This explosion is the highlight of the deadliest for NATO since April 27. That day, eight soldiers - including several officers - and a civilian, and all Americans responsible for aviation training Afghan were killed for unknown reasons on the basis of Kabul by an Afghan soldier, a former pilot Afghan army.
A source within the ISAF, the eight soldiers killed Thursday died in the explosions of two successive bombs in the border district of Pakistan Shorabak, in the southern province of Kandahar, a stronghold of Taliban history. NATO has stepped up operations over the past two years in this province in southern Afghanistan, deemed crucial to stabilize the country.
The chief of border police in the southern zone said that ISAF soldiers were patrolling jointly with the Afghan police in the explosion, and that two policemen had also died. According to the independent website iCasualties, almost 60% of losses since the beginning of the year in the ranks of the international forces have been caused by artisanal gear (mines or bombs), which are also numerous civilian casualties.
The nine dead on Thursday bring to at least 200 the number of foreign soldiers killed in operations in Afghanistan since early 2011, according to a report prepared from this same site. More than 2,400 foreign troops, including more than 1,500 Americans were killed in nearly a decade of conflict in Afghanistan, according iCasualties.
Approximately 130 000 ISAF soldiers, two-thirds American, are deployed in Afghanistan to support the government of President Hamid Karzai against the Taliban-led insurgency since they were ousted by an international coalition in late 2001 . 
NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) which operates in the country has provided no details about the circumstances of the blast and did not report either the number of possible casualties. This explosion is the highlight of the deadliest for NATO since April 27. That day, eight soldiers - including several officers - and a civilian, and all Americans responsible for aviation training Afghan were killed for unknown reasons on the basis of Kabul by an Afghan soldier, a former pilot Afghan army.
A source within the ISAF, the eight soldiers killed Thursday died in the explosions of two successive bombs in the border district of Pakistan Shorabak, in the southern province of Kandahar, a stronghold of Taliban history. NATO has stepped up operations over the past two years in this province in southern Afghanistan, deemed crucial to stabilize the country.
The chief of border police in the southern zone said that ISAF soldiers were patrolling jointly with the Afghan police in the explosion, and that two policemen had also died. According to the independent website iCasualties, almost 60% of losses since the beginning of the year in the ranks of the international forces have been caused by artisanal gear (mines or bombs), which are also numerous civilian casualties.
The nine dead on Thursday bring to at least 200 the number of foreign soldiers killed in operations in Afghanistan since early 2011, according to a report prepared from this same site. More than 2,400 foreign troops, including more than 1,500 Americans were killed in nearly a decade of conflict in Afghanistan, according iCasualties.
Approximately 130 000 ISAF soldiers, two-thirds American, are deployed in Afghanistan to support the government of President Hamid Karzai against the Taliban-led insurgency since they were ousted by an international coalition in late 2001 .
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