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A bloody day and night for American forces in southern Afghanistan has left eight U.S. troops dead, as Taliban militants step up their attacks in the face of an ongoing American-led offensive to capture the militants' hometown. Three U.S. troops and five civilians were killed Tuesday night in an attack on police headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, according to officials with the international military coalition. An Afghan official said a police officer also died in the attack. A statement from the international force said a car bomb slammed into the entrance of the compound. Insurgents then opened fire with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. International forces and police kept the attackers from entering the compound and eventually fought them off, but three international troops died along with five civilian workers. An official with the International Assistance Force-Afghanistan (ISAF) confirmed to CBS News' Fazul Rahim that all three of the foreign troops killed in the attack were American. added by: TimALoftis