KABUL: Three American soldiers were killed Friday in separate bomb attacks in Afghanistan, Nato said.
The International Security Assistance Force (Isaf), Nato's counter-insurgency mission in Afghanistan, said two of the soldiers died in a Taliban-type roadside bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan.
The third died in a similar bombing in the volatile south.
An Isaf spokesman confirmed to AFP that all three were Americans.
Their deaths took to 465 the number of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan so far this year, compared to 521 for the whole of last year, according to an AFP count based on the independent icasualties.org website.
There are nearly 150,000 US-led foreign troops in Afghanistan fighting to reverse an escalating Taliban-led insurgency and to train Afghan government forces so they can take responsibility for national security.
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