The fighting goes on in Afghanistan, faithfully carried out by NATO troops and allies. They chase the Taliban, fight, and die.

Kabul, June 16 (AP): A suicide car bomber targeting a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan killed 10 people, including five children and a Dutch soldier, amid a fresh wave of violence that also left more than 24 militants dead, officials said.

In the east, a US-led coalition member was killed in a battle Friday.

The suicide car bomb blast Friday in Tirin Kot in Uruzgan province targeted a NATO convoy but killed five children as well as a Dutch soldier, said Eimert van Middelkoop, the Dutch defense minister.

The blast also killed four Afghan men, said Gen. Abdul Qasem Khan, the provincial police chief.

Three Dutch troops and seven Afghan civilians, including two women, were also wounded when the bomber drove a car out of a side street and detonated the explosives near a Dutch armored car, officials said.

And when they die, their comrades grieve.

In the bloody aftermath of the June 15 suicide attack on their patrol in the filthy little town of Tarin Kowt, the young soldiers of the Dutch army’s 42 Limburgse Jagers struggled to keep Timo Smeehuyzen from slipping away. Medics gave chest compressions to the severely injured 20-year-old from Amsterdam while an ambulance from Kamp Holland raced to the scene. But it arrived too late, and Timo died sprawled in the back of a charred armored personnel carrier thousands of miles from home.

The entire article is a terribly sad report on the death of a soldier who was loved and respected by friends of three countries.

Meanwhile, the people who sheltered the terrorists responsible for the deaths of more than 3,000 Americans have returned from their sheltered rest camps in Waziristan, where they are protected by the Pakistani Army.

June 19, 2007 -- Afghan officials in Kabul say the Taliban have taken control of a district in the south of the country.

Interior Ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashary said police withdrew from the Mian Nisheen district of Kandahar Province late on June 18.

But he described the withdrawal as "temporary" and said authorities were planning an operation to retake the district.

Bashary also said 10 civilians, four police officers, and up to 60 Taliban were killed in days of fighting in neighboring Oruzgan Province.

But he denied claims that dozens more civilians were killed by NATO air strikes in Oruzgan.

Rested, refreshed, resupplied, they’re ready for the Summer campaign season.