Eight US troops killed in insurgent attack
INSURGENTS stormed remote Afghan outposts near the Pakistani border, killing eight US troops and cutting off scores of Afghan police, officials said, in the deadliest battle in more than a year.
Nato said at least two Afghan soldiers died along with the eight Americans. Afghan provincial authorities said they had lost contact with scores of Afghan policemen after the day-long attack.
The fighting took place in Nuristan province's Kamdesh district on Saturday. The battle showed the ferocity of the insurgency in a part of the country that US forces have decided to abandon.
President Barack Obama's national security adviser, meanwhile, insisted Afghanistan is not in imminent danger of falling to the Taleban as he downplayed worries that the insurgency could set up a sanctuary for al-Qaeda.
Retired Gen James Jones also emphasised Pakistan's campaign against insurgents in safe havens along the border, suggesting that those efforts could provide a key shift in the war.
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