Eight NATO Troops Killed in Afghanistan Blasts

Eight NATO soldiers have been killed in a series of bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan, the military said Friday.

Three died on Thursday, another lost his life in a blast on Friday and four more were killed in second attack later the same day.

NATO's U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force did not release the nationalities of the soldiers, in keeping with policy.

Details would be released by the soldiers' home countries, a spokesman said.

More than 560 foreign troops were killed last year in Afghanistan, where some 130,000 U.S.-led troops are fighting an insurgency by hardline Taliban Islamists against the Western-backed government of President Hamid Karzai.