Four Canadian soldiers killed in Afghan blast
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomber on a   bicycle killed four Canadian NATO soldiers handing out   notebooks and pens to children in southern Afghanistan on   Monday, a day after NATO declared the area free of Taliban   insurgents.
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A Canadian soldier was killed Friday in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, while an insurgent attack on a police checkpoint left three dead, officials said.
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A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of children clamouring to get pens and books from Canadian troops in Afghanistan, killing four NATO soliders and a number of civilians, police and NATO said.
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Four of the soldiers died in a roadside bomb attack; the four others were killed by small-arms fire in separate incidents.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber on a bicycle   killed four NATO soldiers handing out notebooks and pens to   children in southern Afghanistan on Monday a day after NATO   declared the area free of Taliban insurgents.
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TORONTO, July 4 -- Six Canadian soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan on Wednesday as  criticism increased here of the growing military and civilian toll.
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A suicide car bomber hit a Canadian military convoy in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, witnesses and a police officer said. There was no immediate word on casualties.
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A soldier is killed and four others are injured in operations in Afghanistan overnight, the MoD says.
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TORONTO, July 4 -- Six Canadian soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan on Wednesday as opponents here increased their criticism of the growing military and civilian toll.
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A British soldier is killed and four others are injured in operations in Afghanistan overnight.
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A suicide car bomb has killed a British soldier and four Afghans in Afghanistan's capital Kabul, Britain's defence ministry and police said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A roadside bomb blast in eastern Afghanistan killed four American soldiers yesterday, while two NATO soldiers died elsewhere and a battle in the country's poppy- growing heartland killed more than 50 suspected militants.
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A suicide bomber on a bicycle attacked Canadian troops handing out candy to children in southern Afghanistan on Monday, an Afghan official said. A NATO spokesman said the blast killed four soldiers.
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A soldier with the NATO-led force fighting the Taliban-led insurgency in southern Afghanistan was killed in an explosion that also wounded five other troopers, the alliance's force said Monday.
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SANGSAR, Afghanistan  - Canadian troops drove Taliban insurgents into an Afghan army ambush on Saturday and then called in air strikes to hit the fleeing militants, killing at least 15, the Canadian army commander said.
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PASHMUL, Afghanistan -- Warplanes and artillery pounded Taliban fighters hiding in orchards yesterday during a large Afghan-NATO offensive that the alliance said killed more than 200 militants in its first two days. Four Canadian soldiers also were killed.
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One Canadian soldier was killed by   friendly fire and several were wounded on Monday during a major   offensive to crush a resurgent Taliban in southern Afghanistan.