Five soldiers die in Afghanistan

**Attacks by militants in Afghanistan have left four US and one French soldier dead, with the US death toll for 2010 now 14.**Nato said that one American had died in fighting in the east while another succumbed to wounds suffered in a roadside bombing in the south.

Little information was given about a bomb which killed two more US soldiers.

A roadside bomb attack to the north-east of the capital, Kabul, killed one French soldier.

Six international soldiers were killed in Afghanistan as a result of attacks on Monday, the deadliest day for foreign troops there in two months.

They were identified as three Americans, a Briton and two French soldiers. One of the French soldiers was mortally wounded, and died on Tuesday.