Leaders meeting at an international conference on Afghanistan have agreed on a timetable for foreign forces to exit the country. The delegates in London Thursday also backed the Afghan president’s plan to lure Taliban to renounce violence.

SOURCE: The Christian Science Monitor At London Afghanistan conference, a developing script of withdrawal

NATO reported that two US service members have been killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan. Tuesday’s bomb attack mark the 18th death of Americans killed in Afghanistan this year.

SOURCE: ynetnews.com 2 US troops killed by roadside bomb in Afghanistan

Taliban Spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said militants planted a roadside bomb that claimed the lives of two US soldiers in a passing military convoy in the Gurbez district of Khost province on Sunday.

Four other U.S. soldiers died when their vehicle went over an improvised explosive device (IED) in Khost’s provincial capital. The incident was also claimed by the militants.

SOURCE: PRESS TV Taliban claim killing 6 soldier

A member of British bomb disposal team was killed by a bomb that detonated in near Musa Qala in Helmand, Afghanistan.

Three American soldiers were killed in a gun battle in southern Afghanistan.

One French soldier was killed 50 miles northeast of Kabul.

The sixth soldier’s country and location of KIA was not available.

Wikipedia: 11 Explosive Ordinance Disposal Regiment of the Royal Logistic Corps (11 EOD Regiment) | British Army’s Royal Logistic Corps (RLC) | Helmand | Musa Qala | KIA | Kabul | Afghanistan

SOURCE: TIMESONLINE Six Western soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Rupert Hamer, The Sunday Mirror’s defence correspondent, has been killed in an explosion Saturday in Afghanistan. The Mirror’s photographer, Philip Coburn, was also seriously injured in the detonation of an IED near an US army vehicle in which they were travelling. Hamer, 39, and Coburn, 43, were embedded with the US Marine Corps when a US marine and an Afghan soldier were also killed in the blast n the Nawa province of southern Afghanistan.

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Jordanian doctor Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi, who killed seven CIA employees in a suicide attack in Afghanistan, said in posthumous video clips broadcast Saturday that all jihadists must attack U.S. targets to avenge the death of Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud.

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A suicide bomber targeted pro-government militia commander Nasir Paray and detonated his suicide bomb vest in a southeastern provincial capital, Gardez of Patkia Province on Thursday, Ten people (including the commander and 4 childeren) were killed and 27 people (mostly civilians) were injured about 50 miles south Kabul.

Wikipedia: Gardez | Paktia Province | Afghanistan

SOURCE: New York Times Bomber Kills 10 in Southeastern Afghanistan

JAN 05 2010 — US intelligence sources named the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA agents and a Jordanian intelligence officer at a secret CIA facility at Forward Operation Base Chapman in Afghanistan on Dec. 30, 2009 as Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, 36, a Jordanian medical doctor.
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WED DEC 30 2009 — A Canadian journalist Michelle Lang and four soldier were killed by and IED detonation while traveling with a provincial reconstruction team.

Calgary Reporter Michelle Lang

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DEC 15 2009 KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — A suicide car bombing in an elite neighborhood of Kabul, Afghanistan killed at least eight people and wounded at least 40. A man drove a car to a checkpoint near the Heetal Plaza Hotel in Kabul’s Wazir Akbar Khan district of the city — a bomb in the car detonated and exploded.

Wikipedia: Kabul | heetalplazahotel.com

SOURCE: Bloomberg.com: Car Bomb Kills Eight in Elite Kabul Neighborhood (Update1) …