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Five service members were killed by one blast, and two others died in a separate attack, according to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force. No other information about the military members was released. The deaths bring the number of U.S. soldiers killed since Saturday to 14.
Witnesses near Kandahar city reported seeing a large blast destroy an armored vehicle in an American military convoy this afternoon on Highway 1, just west of the southern city, The New York Times reported.
Southern Afghanistan, home turf to Taliban insurgents, has been the focus of stepped-up American military operations.
But a week ago, top NATO and U.S. military commander Gen. David Petraeus told the BBC that momentum gained by the Taliban had been reversed in the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar, as well as near Kabul.
"You not only have to reverse the momentum, you have to take away those sanctuaries and safe havens that the Taliban have been able to establish over the course of those years," Petraeus said.
Insurgent leaders have said anyone linked to foreign governments, aid agencies or the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai is a target.
Separately, Sayed Mohammad Pahlawan, a local official in Nagahar province, was killed this morning when a remote-controlled bomb exploded in his car near the eastern city of Jalalabad, Agence France-Presse reported.
"He was on his way to the office of the provincial governor," spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai told the French news agency.
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