Two US soldiers found dead in Afghanistan

The newspaper quoted a senior Pentagon official as saying that the two soldiers from a team of four Special Forces troops, missing in Kunar province since last Tuesday, had been found dead. One was missing and one had been rescued, it said.

But the US military spokesman in the Afghan capital, Colonel Jim Yonts, said he had no information to confirm any soldiers had been found dead.

"A search and recovery operation is continuing," he said, referring to a massive effort involving hundreds of US troops that has been underway in Kunar for the past week.

The US military on Monday night confirmed reports that one member of the small US reconnaissance team that went missing in an anti-militant operation had been found and was in stable condition. It said operations were continuing to find the others.