KABUL (Reuters) - Eight U.S. troops were killed in battle when remote outposts were stormed by fighters in an Afghan district the Americans were planning to abandon, the military said on Sunday, the deadliest battle in more than a year.
At least two Afghan soldiers were killed in the fighting in Nuristan province, in an area from which U.S. forces had already announced plans to withdraw as part of commander General Stanley McChrystal's strategy to focus his forces on population centres.
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