Five foreign soldiers died in incidents in Afghanistan Sunday, the military said, while the Taliban renewed attacks on a remote US base in the south ahead of an anticipated storming operation by the militants, DPA reported. Three US servicemen and an interpreter were killed when their truck was hit by a roadside bomb in the eastern Nangarhar province by the border with Pakistan, the US-led coalition said. Another soldier with the separate International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) died and three were injured when another truck turned over in an accident in the east. A second ISAF soldier was also killed in an attack in the south and several other foreign troops and one Afghan soldier were wounded, ISAF said without giving the nationality of the casualties. Meanwhile, US forces at the beleaguered Anaconda base in the central Uruzgan province were expecting a "large-scale attack" in the very near future, the military said. "We are prepared to kill or capture all the Taliban who are naive enough to think they could successfully attack our base," a coalition spokesperson said. The three previous attacks in the past week were thought to have been in preparation for a major assault on the base, it was believed. According to the coalition, more than 50 radical Islamist rebels were killed during the first attack on Tuesday, while four rebels were killed during the second attack on Saturday and several others during a third attack the same day. The coalition did not give details on possible losses among Afghan and foreign soldiers. Several rebels had also been killed during fights and air raids in the southern Afghan Helmand province, the coalition said further, while three Afghan and a coalition soldier had been injured in the fighting.
