KABUL, Afghanistan -- Two NATO soldiers were killed in separate incidents in southern Afghanistan on Monday, the alliance said.
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"One soldier was killed by enemy hostile action and another was killed in an improvised explosive device blast while supporting an Afghan National Police operation," the statement said.
NATO did not disclose the nationalities of the dead soldiers but Britain's Ministry of Defence said a British soldier had been killed on patrol in the Musa Qala area of Helmand province.
American, British and Afghan troops pushed Taliban fighters out of Musa Qala late last year. Militants had overrun it in early 2007 and held it for 10 months.
The death brings to 96 the number of British personnel who have died in Afghanistan since 2001.
Southern Afghanistan is the centre of the Taliban-led insurgency. More than 1,200 people -- mostly militants -- have died in insurgency-related violence in Afghanistan this year, according to a tally compiled by The Associated Press.
Separately, a suicide bomber in eastern Afghanistan struck a military patrol in eastern Paktika province Monday, wounding four Afghan soldiers and a civilian translator working with the U.S.-led coalition, a provincial government spokesman, Ghamai Mohammadyar, said.
The bomber, who died in the blast, attacked the patrol in Paktika's Bermel district, which is close to the border with Pakistan.
Last year militants staged more than 140 suicide attacks on Afghan and foreign troops, but most victims have been civilians.
--The Associated Press
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