[Dawn] At least 13 people, including five Afghan border police, a NATO...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization....
soldier and two would-be jacket wallahs were killed across Afghanistan Saturday, officials said.
The border guards died when their vehicle was ambushed in Gulran district of Hirat province in western Afghanistan, General Sulaiman, the commander of rapid reaction forces in the area, told AFP.
"The vehicle first hit a roadside kaboom and then the forces of Evil opened fire using grenade launchers and small arms," he said.
The NATO soldier died in an thug attack in southern Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force said, without providing any further details.
Also on Saturday, a roadside kaboom hit a civilian truck in Lashkar Gah, the capital city of volatile Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
Province in southern Afghanistan, killing three civilians and wounding three others.
"They were labours going to their work in the morning when their truck hit the roadside kaboom that killed three and maimed three others," the provincial front man Daud Ahmadi said.
In southeastern Afghanistan, Afghan and NATO security forces rubbed out four attackers attempting to target Barmal district chief office in Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
province on Saturday, Mukhlis Afghan the provincial front man said.
"Two attackers had boom jackets on, but were killed before being able to detonate and two others were armed," he said, adding that there were no other fatalities.
The east and southeastern regions of Afghanistan have been the focus of US-led coalition efforts recently, shifting from Taliban strongholds in the south towards the restive area along the border with Pakistain.