This doesn't sound good at all. KABUL -- Two American soldiers went missing after driving off their base in Kabul on Friday afternoon, and the Taliban later claimed to have captured them in eastern Afghanistan, NATO officials said Saturday, the same day five U.S. troops were killed in the south. The coalition launched a manhunt by ground and air for the two missing soldiers but did not immediately release information about their identities or what is known of their whereabouts. "Every available asset is being brought to bear" to find them, said Lt. Col. Joseph T. Breasseale, a NATO spokesman in Kabul. Afghan officials in Logar province, which borders Kabul to the south, said the soldiers were driving an armored sport-utility vehicle when they were captured in Matinai, a village in the Charkh district. A spokesman for Logar's governor, Din Mohammad Darwish, said the area is "totally under control of the enemy."
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