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KABUL — Three international troops died in insurgent attacks and a senior Afghan police official was assassinated, officials said Thursday as violence spiraled across the country.
NATO also said it captured a suspected Taliban-linked supplier of bomb-making materials overnight in an eastern province, as the international security force steps up operations in the south and east, boosted by thousands of American troops sent to try to turn around the nearly 9-year-old war.
The force said an American service member was killed by an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday.
