Four soldiers killed in Afghanistan: NATO

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. (AFP)