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By Kamal Sadat
KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed two foreign soldiers and two Afghan civilians in a bazaar outside a NATO base in southeast Afghanistan on Sunday and wounded nearly 20, NATO and Afghan officials said.
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Sun Dec 5, 2010 10:11am EST
KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed two foreign soldiers and two Afghan civilians in a bazaar outside a NATO base in southeast Afghanistan on Sunday and wounded nearly 20, NATO and Afghan officials said.
Violence in Afghanistan is at its worst since the Taliban were overthrown more than nine years ago with record casualties on all sides of the conflict, despite the presence of almost 150,000 foreign troops.
The rise in insecurity and the spread of the insurgency to once peaceful areas will weigh heavily on U.S. President Barack Obama and his administration as they prepare for a review of the war in just over a week.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast in Gardez district of Paktia, a province located to the south of Kabul and close to the Pakistan border.
Major S. Justin Platt, spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Paktia confirmed there had been several casualties.
"There were two ISAF soldiers killed and six wounded," Platt told Reuters by phone from the region.
ISAF officials in Kabul confirmed it was a suicide blast.
The explosion happened as a group of foreign and Afghan soldiers were shopping, a military source in Kabul told Reuters, adding at least four Afghan troops were also wounded.
"Two (Afghan) shopkeepers were killed. Eighteen other people ... were wounded," Rohullah Samoon, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said by phone.
The Taliban spokesman said 19 Afghan and foreign soldiers were killed in the attack, although the group often inflates casualties among foreign and government troops.
This year has been the deadliest for foreign troops since the war began in late 2001. Around 680 troops have died so far in 2010 compared to 521 for all of 2009. Around 2,250 foreign troops have died in Afghanistan since the start of the war.
Later on Sunday, ISAF said one of its service members had died in a separate insurgent attack in the south of the country but gave no further details.
But it is ordinary Afghans who have borne the brunt of the fighting as they become increasingly caught up in the crossfire.
According to U.N. figures, 1,271 civilians were killed in the first six months of this year, a 21 percent jump on the same period in 2009.
Last month, NATO leaders agreed to hand control of security in Afghanistan to Afghan forces by the end of 2014 and said the NATO-led force could halt combat operations by the same date if security conditions were good enough.
But some U.S. and NATO officials have said the spike in violence and problems in building up a capable Afghan army and police force to take over could make it hard to meet the 2014 target date set by President Hamid Karzai.
(Additional reporting by Sayed Salahuddin, writing by Jonathon Burch in Kabul; editing by Myra MacDonald)
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