Report From Kabul ................

Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan—

Insurgent bombs killed six Western soldiers on Thursday, the NATO force reported, five of those in a single attack.

All the deaths took place in southern Afghanistan, the Taliban movement's main base. The nationalities of those killed were not immediately disclosed, but most of the foreign forces serving in the south are American or British.

Improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, remain the biggest killer of Western troops in Afghanistan, despite coalition countermeasures such as improved equipment and more effective detection methods.

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An American airstrike killed the Taliban insurgents whose attack caused a helicopter crash that killed 22 Navy SEALs and eight other U.S. service members, military officials in Kabul and Washington said Wednesday.

However, Marine Gen. John R. Allen, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, told reporters at the Pentagon that the main Taliban leader in the area remained at large. He did not identify that insurgent commander, the hunt for whom set in motion the events that led to the crash of the CH-47 Chinook helicopter on Saturday.