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Summary Taliban insurgents detonated a truck bomb, then tried to storm a NATO base in eastern Afghanistan.
However, the coalition forces repelled the attack and killing 14 militants, officials said.No foreign or Afghan troops were killed, according to NATO.In the past two years, the U.S.-led coalition has sent tens of thousands of troops into Taliban strongholds in the south and has largely succeeded in boosting security there.The Taliban have responded by opening up new fronts in the north and west and stepping up attacks in the east, where much of the heaviest fighting is presently concentrated.NATO plans to pull combat troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014 and turn security over to local forces. If security allows, Karzai said foreign forces could pull out earlier.The death toll of coalition troops who have died in Afghanistan this year is 177.
