2 NATO service members killed in Afghanistan

Afghan National Army cadets march following a Taliban capture military exercise, overseen by French and Canadian soldiers, at the Kabul Military Training Center on November 13, 2012 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The center conducts training between 10-24 weeks to prepare recruits for service. / Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images
KABUL, Afghanistan Two service members with the U.S-led military coalition were killed Friday by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, the coalition said. Their nationalities were not released.
So far this year, 377 U.S. and other foreign troops have been killed in Afghanistan.
In a separate incident on Friday, a roadside bomb in western Afghanistan killed 17 civilians traveling to a wedding, an Afghan official said.
Abdul Rahman Zhuwandai, a spokesman for Farah province, said the civilians were riding in a bus that hit the bomb in Pusht Rod district.
At least 10 people were wounded in the explosion in what is a relatively peaceful part of the country.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the attack, saying, "Our people want to live in joy and happiness."
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- Just more evidence that we need to just get out of there! I noticed that back in the 1980's, the right-wing news media lambasted the Russians for being in Afghanistan and now this same media lavishes undue praise upon the NATO forces for the same thing. This is just how biased the media is! The Russians were no more the vilains than the NATO forces are the heroes!
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