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US soldier killed by IED in Afghanistan

KABUL (AFP) – A US soldier deployed in Afghanistan to fight Taliban-linked militants was killed by a remote-controlled bomb, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said Sunday.

The death happened on Saturday in western Afghanistan, which has recently seen as escalation in Taliban activity, ISAF said in a statement.

It gave no further details of the incident.

So far in 20 More..09, 408 foreign soldiers have died in Afghanistan, 242 of them American, according to an AFP count based on a running tally kept by the independent website icasualties.org.
The war, now in its ninth year, is intensifying as US President Barack Obama -- surprise recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize -- considers a request from military leaders for tens of thousands more troops.

NATO and the US have more than 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, battling to contain a resurgent Taliban.
Home-made bombs, or improved explosive devices (IEDs) have become the scourge of the efforts to eradicate the Taliban, as they are small, hidden and difficult to detect.
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