Two American soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Thursday hours before Defense Secretary Roberts Gates arrived in Kabul for talks with President Hamid Karzai and the top NATO commander in Afghanistan, U.S. General David Petraeus.
The marines, serving as part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), were killed in separate militant attacks in the east and the south of the country.
NATO did not disclose nationalities of the dead soldiers, but reports quoting a U.S. military official said the victims were Americans.
The Pentagon chief landed in Kabul after overseeing a ceremony marking the formal end of American combat operations in Iraq.
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June 12, 2026 17:14 ET Major central bank action was the focus this week in economic news. The European Central Bank became the first major central bank to move in response to the rising inflationary pressures in the backdrop of the conflict in the Middle East. In North America, the U.S. inflation and trade data as well as Canada’s central bank decision gained attention. The Chinese trade data was the main news in Asia.