2 foreign troops killed in insurgent attack

KABUL, the alliance said on Monday.

The deaths were announced in a brief statement from the NATO-led force that neither revealed the nationalities of the fallen troops nor the exact location of the incident.

Mostly American and Italian soldiers are fighting against the Taliban in the western part of the country.

Since the beginning of 2012, 266 foreign soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan. Last year, 566 NATO-led soldiers lost their lives in the country.

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