On Sunday five soldiers were killed by suspected militants in a bomb attack in Yala, a neighbouring province.
Russia's new defence minister has sacked the chief medical officer of the armed forces after five soldiers died of pneumonia.
The deaths of a further five soldiers takes the number of British military personnel killed on operations in Afghanistan since 2001 to 229.
Instead, five soldiers died in the Israeli desert in the final rehearsal for the mission, and the lives of the survivors were upended forever.
Now the Pentagon is confirming there were five soldiers injured.
It depicts five soldiers hoisting the Sri Lankan flag, looking remarkably like the iconic photograph of five marines and a seaman raising Old Glory over Iwo Jima in 1945.
Serving as a platoon commander in 1 Para, Mr Ellicock was flown to Sierra Leone in September 2000 to take part in the rescue of five soldiers from the Royal Irish Regiment taken hostage by a rebel militia.
All but twenty-five American soldiers had departed, and even they would be leaving soon.
"Five brave soldiers have been martyred today, " Mr. Abdullah said, adding that he was awaiting further information on the attack.
This week, five American soldiers were killed by a bomb near Fallujah, a hotbed of Sunni insurgency west of Baghdad.
Five Turkish soldiers were killed on Sunday in clashes with rebels near the Iraqi border, according to Turkish media reports.
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Major LUKE KNITTIG (ISAF): This week, five ISAF soldiers have been killed and thirteen wounded fighting for the future of Afghanistan.
Before his speech, Mr. Obama met with five returning soldiers, and with the family of a young infantryman who died Nov. 14.
Meanwhile, one of five American soldiers accused of killing Afghan civilians for sport pleaded guilty and was given a 24-year prison sentence.
Five American soldiers and two Colombians were killed after a United States military plane on an anti-drugs reconnaissance flight crashed in a remote part of Colombia .
Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski again threatened to declare a formal state of war in Macedonia after ethnic-Albanian rebels, seeking to widen the conflict to an area hitherto unaffected, killed five government soldiers north-west of Skopje, the capital.
Five US soldiers serving as part of the Nato force in Kandahar province were later killed by another roadside bomb and reports on Saturday said an Afghan soldier had turned his weapon on coalition troops, killing two people.
Five seriously injured soldiers were airlifted to Garissa hospital, but one of them died.
Graner is one of five other military police soldiers still facing pending charges.
They must then allocate their soldiers among five battlefields and fight each other.
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Six Italian soldiers, five Belgians, two Dutch nationals, two Spaniards, a Portuguese and a Czech national have died after serving in the Balkans.
Four French soldiers and five Belgians have also contracted leukaemia.
Twenty soldiers and five assailants were killed, and at least 30 other people -- including civilians -- were injured in attacks about 200 kilometers (124 miles) apart in Niger early Thursday, the African nation's defense minister said.
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In a statement issued late on Friday, the Chadian army said it had "destroyed five vehicles and killed 65 jihadists", adding that 13 of its soldiers had been killed and another five wounded.
She attended a service of thanksgiving at Lichfield Cathedral to mark the return of soldiers from a five-month tour of duty in Afghanistan.
Their skills were made clear to the company a year later when they sent five of the ex-soldiers to guard a crime-ridden car park in the city's Giltbrook area.
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