KABUL — Four NATO soldiers were killed Sunday in two separate insurgent attacks in Afghanistan, the force said, just over a day after 30 US troops died in a helicopter crash.
Two were killed in an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan and the other two in a similar attack in the east, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said in a statement.
ISAF did not provide details including the exact locations where the troops were killed, nor did it release their nationalities, following its policy of leaving the announcement to their respective nations.
The new deaths follow a deadly helicopter crash that killed 30 US Special Operations soldiers and seven of their Afghan counterparts in Wardak, a troubled region near capital Kabul.
The latest fatalities bring to 383 the number of foreign soldiers killed so far this year, against 711 for the whole of last year, according to the independent website icasualties.org.
The force said it was investigating what caused the deadly crash after local officials and the Afghan military said the Taliban brought it down. The militants have claimed they shot down the Chinook helicopter in a rocket attack.
Afghanistan is in the grip of a deadly insurgency launched in late 2001 by the remnants of the Taliban whose regime was toppled in a US-led invasion after the September 11 attacks.
There are tens of thousands of Western, mostly US troops deployed to Afghanistan to quell the insurgency. The US has already started drawing down its troops in a process that will see Afghan security forces taking over all security responsibilities from foreign forces by 2014 (Copyright © 2011 AFP. All rights reserved)
Two were killed in an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan and the other two in a similar attack in the east, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said in a statement.
ISAF did not provide details including the exact locations where the troops were killed, nor did it release their nationalities, following its policy of leaving the announcement to their respective nations.
The new deaths follow a deadly helicopter crash that killed 30 US Special Operations soldiers and seven of their Afghan counterparts in Wardak, a troubled region near capital Kabul.
The latest fatalities bring to 383 the number of foreign soldiers killed so far this year, against 711 for the whole of last year, according to the independent website icasualties.org.
The force said it was investigating what caused the deadly crash after local officials and the Afghan military said the Taliban brought it down. The militants have claimed they shot down the Chinook helicopter in a rocket attack.
Afghanistan is in the grip of a deadly insurgency launched in late 2001 by the remnants of the Taliban whose regime was toppled in a US-led invasion after the September 11 attacks.
There are tens of thousands of Western, mostly US troops deployed to Afghanistan to quell the insurgency. The US has already started drawing down its troops in a process that will see Afghan security forces taking over all security responsibilities from foreign forces by 2014 (Copyright © 2011 AFP. All rights reserved)
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