U.S. soldier killed by Afghan bomb
TAWARA, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A U.S. soldier was killed and two others wounded Monday near the southern Afghan city of Kandahar as American troops battled Taliban fighters along the rugged border with Pakistan, a U.S. commander said.
The soldier died after a remote-controlled roadside bomb detonated underneath his Humvee near Deh Rawod in Afghanistan's Uruzgan Province, according to U.S. Central Command.
He was one of three soldiers in the vehicle who were taken to a military hospital in Kandahar.
About 20,000 troops from the Army's 25th Infantry Division and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit have been fighting Taliban forces in provinces along the Pakistan border in recent days.
In other violence, two improvised explosive devices detonated Monday alongside an Army convoy, and an Army camp in Paktika Province was the target of a rocket attack overnight. No injuries were reported in either incident.
Seven U.S. troops have been killed in the past month in Afghanistan, where U.S. troops are battling remnants of the al Qaeda terrorist network and the Taliban militia that once ruled most of the country.
CNN's Ryan Chilcote contributed to this report.
