Two American soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Thursday hours before Defense Secretary Roberts Gates arrived in Kabul for talks with President Hamid Karzai and the top NATO commander in Afghanistan, U.S. General David Petraeus.
The marines, serving as part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), were killed in separate militant attacks in the east and the south of the country.
NATO did not disclose nationalities of the dead soldiers, but reports quoting a U.S. military official said the victims were Americans.
The Pentagon chief landed in Kabul after overseeing a ceremony marking the formal end of American combat operations in Iraq.
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