Foreign soldier killed in insurgent attack

KABUL, the alliance said on Tuesday.

The death was announced in a brief statement from the multinational force that neither revealed the servicemember’s nationality nor the exact location of the Taliban assault.

With the latest fatality, the number of international troops killed in the country this year has increased to 163 — 115 of them US military personnel. Mostly, Americans are stationed in the Taliban’s eastern heartland.

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