One of two American service members who were abducted in Afghanistan on Friday has been killed, provincial government officials said Sunday.

Den Mohammad Darwish, the spokesman for the governor of Logar province, said he learned from locals that the service member was killed. Hesaid the body was found in the Patanak Mountains of Charkh district. He also said the vehicle the men were driving was located Sunday.

A Taliban spokesman confirmed that the killed American died in a firefight and the other is being held by the group. FULL POST

The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the assassination of a Pakistani politician's son, a Taliban spokesman told CNN.

On Saturday night, gunman shot and killed 25-year-old Mian Rashid Hussain, the only son of Mian Iftikhar Hussain, who is provincial minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and a fierce Taliban critic.

In a phone call to CNN, Taliban spokesman Ihsan Ullah Ihsan said the elder Hussain is also on the Taliban's hit list.

A bomb exploded Sunday in front of a busy shopping area in Bangkok, Thailand, killing at least one man, authorities said.

Ten others were wounded an taken to three hospitals, according to a government emergency center. The 51-year-old man died while hospitalized for his injuries, authorities said.

Several roadside bombs and a sticky bomb in different districts in Baghdad killed two people and injured 22 Sunday, police officials in Baghdad reported.

A national police officer was killed and three others were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a police foot patrol in the Dora district of southern Baghdad, according to police officials.

And two roadside bombs were set off near a police patrol in Ghazaliya district in western Baghdad, injuring 14 people, including eight police officers.

Two people were injured when a sticky bomb attached to a civilian car exploded in New Baghdad in southeastern Baghdad, police said. All incidents occurred in a two-hour span Sunday between 6 and 8 p.m. local time (11 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET).

Earlier Sunday, a civilian was killed and three others wounded when a roadside bomb struck a civilian vehicle in the Saydiya neighborhood of southwest Baghdad.

Bombings killed five U.S. troops in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.

The military did not say precisely where the incidents occurred, but the statement said the troops died in "improvised explosive device attacks." Four service members died in one attack and one was killed in the other. The incidents come during a bloody stretch in the country this summer. June was the deadliest month for international troops since the war began:  60 Americans were among 102 international troops slain, according to a CNN count of military figures.

This month, more than 70 international troops have died. That total includes more than 50 U.S. service members.

Taliban militants have regularly attacked troops with improvised explosive devices - the homemade bombs popularly known by the acronym IEDs.

They are considered the weapon of choice for insurgents during the Afghan conflict, and the military regularly conducts raids targeting people who have staged such attacks against troops.

On Friday night, Afghan and coalition soldiers pursuing a militant who plans IED attacks against coalition troops killed two armed men and detained others in the country's east, ISAF said on Saturday.

The incident occurred in Khost province.  The troops were hunting down a militant from the Haqqani network, which has links to the Taliban. "IEDs not only harm Afghan and coalition forces, but approximately a third of the IED attacks wound and kill innocent civilians," said Col. Rafael Torres, an ISAF spokesman.

America's top military officer arrived in Pakistan on Saturday as part of an international tour, officials said. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in Islamabad on Saturday, U.S. Embassy spokesman Rick Snelsire said. Mullen is on a 10-day trip meeting with military and government leaders around the world, according to a statement on the Joint Chiefs of Staff website.

Speaking to reporters Friday in New Delhi, India, Mullen noted that the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba was a growing threat. "We're all increasingly concerned about its capability, its aspirations, and that's one of the reasons that we have to work so hard with each other as well as with Pakistan," he said, according to a transcript of his remarks posted on the Joint Chiefs of Staff website. "And it's an issue that I raise very consistently in my meetings with leadership in Pakistan. And I will again when I meet with them again." FULL POST