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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam 4 US soldiers killed in Afghan bomb attack: NATO AFP - 1 hour 5 minutes ago Send IM Story Print KABUL (AFP) - – Four US soldiers were killed Saturday in a Taliban-style bomb attack, NATO said, as the death toll of foreign soldiers in the Afghan war climbed closer to the 2,000 mark. NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the four died following an attack involving an improvised explosive device, or IED, the main weapon deployed by the Taliban in their insurgency. An ISAF spokeswomen confirmed the four were Americans. The incident took place in southern Afghanistan, where the war is at its fiercest, an ISAF statement said. The deaths bring to 396 the toll of foreign soldiers killed in the war so far this year, compared to 520 for all of 2009. An AFP tally based on that kept by the icasualties.org website puts the number of soldiers to have died since the Afghan insurgency began in 2001 at 1,964, with 1,204 of them Americans. IEDs are the main cause of foreign soldiers' deaths, according to military officials, who say the payload of the crude home-made bombs is rising as the Taliban insurgents adapt to the greater defences of the foreign forces. The US and NATO have almost 150,000 troops in Afghanistan, with the surge of an extra 30,000 Americans ordered by US President Barack Obama almost fully deployed, most of them in the southern hotspots of Kandahar and Helmand. Obama has said he wishes to start drawing down US forces in the middle of next year, and Britain, which has the second largest combat contingent in the country, is eager to pull out within five years. A conference in Kabul this week of Afghanistan's international backers endorsed a plan for the country's own forces to take over security responsibilities by the end of 2014, so international combat troops can leave. Afghanistan's army and police are being trained by their international counterparts, with plans to reach a combined force of 300,000 by later this year. President Hamid Karzai made the pledge in his inauguration speech in November last year, when he began his second term as president, won in an election marred by massive fraud, mostly in his favour. His promise that Afghan security forces would be competent enough to work alone to secure the country from the Taliban onslaught has been met with some scepticism that numbers are more important than the ability to meet targets. Washington's top military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, expressed concerns on Friday about sanctuaries in Pakistan for extremist groups blamed for attacks on Afghan targets. Speaking to reporters in New Delhi during a regional tour, Mullen described the Haqqani network, believed to be based in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal district, as "the most lethal network" faced by US-led coalition in Afghanistan. Pakistan has long faced charges that it provides safe havens for goups such as the Haqqani, which fund, staff, plan and carry out attacks in Afghanistan. The Afghan government has called on Pakistan to take action against the groups, which it has said operate with impunity from Pakistani soil, with the tacit support of the state intelligence agency and elements of the military. Two US lawmakers this week proposed a bill calling for the withdrawal of US troops from Pakistan, where they said they were conducting covert operations against the militant groups. "We have known that US forces have been operating in secret inside the territories of Pakistan without congressional approval," Democratic representative Dennis Kucinich said Friday, pointing to reports the United States was stepping up its presence there. Joining Kucinich on the bill was Ron Paul, a Texas Republican who failed in a bid for the presidency in 2008. Paul said the US military had "significantly increased" its operations in Pakistan, without providing figures. The Pentagon says only a small number of US soldiers operate in Pakistan, mostly Special Forces tasked with training Pakistani troops along the Afghan border. Those US forces are not officially engaged in combat operations. 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