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.