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Kabul (AFP) Aug 30, 2010 Here is a rundown of the deadliest days in NATO's campaign in Afghanistan, after two improvised bombs killed seven US soldiers in the south of the country on Monday: June 28, 2005: Sixteen US soldiers are killed after a rocket fired by Taliban insurgents in Kunar province hits a Chinook transport helicopter. April 8, 2007: Six Canadian soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) are killed in southern Afghanistan when their vehicle passed a roadside bomb. May 31, 2007: Seven soldiers, five of them Americans, die when their transport helicopter is hit by a rocket. July 4, 2007: Six Canadian soldiers and their Afghan interpreter are killed when their armoured vehicle passes a roadside bomb in the south. July 23, 2007: A roadside bomb killed four NATO soldiers in eastern Afghanistan, while two others die in separate incidents in the east and south. November 10, 2007: A firefight with Taliban insurgents in the northeast leaves six NATO and two Afghan soldiers dead. July 13, 2008: Nine American soldiers killed in fierce fighting in Kunar province. August 18, 2008:> Ten French soldiers killed in a Taliban ambush in the Uzbin valley, east of Kabul. September 17, 2009: Six Italian soldiers die during a bomb attack in Kabul. October 3, 2009: Nine American soldiers killed in combat in the eastern province of Nurestan, which borders Pakistan. October 27, 2009: Eight American soldiers die in a series of bombings in the south of the country. January 11, 2010: Six NATO soldiers -- three Americans, two French and a Briton -- are killed in combat. May 18, 2010: Six NATO soldiers die in a Taliban suicide attack on a convoy in Kabul. Two other soldiers are killed on the day, with four dead the day before. June 7, 2010: Bombings in the south and east of the country kill 10 soldiers, including seven Americans, two Australians and one French. June 22, 2010: Ten NATO troops, mostly Americans, die in separate incidents across the country. July 13-14: Twelve Americans die in a series of rebels attacks in the south of the country. August 30, 2010: Seven US troops die in two Taliban-style bombing attacks in southern Afghanistan. Also, on December 30, 2009, seven Americans working for the CIA and a Jordanian intelligence agent were killed by an Al Qaeda suicide attack on an American base in Khost province.
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