A soldier of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) died as a result of a "non-battle related injury" in eastern Afghanistan on Friday.
A brief ISAF press release said the incident was currently under investigation. It left ambiguity regarding how the soldier sustained the fatal injury.
ISAF did not disclose the nationality of the victims, and deferred "casualty identification procedures to the relevant national authorities."
It takes the number of ISAF soldiers killed in Afghanistan this year to 95, according to ICasualties.org, an independent website that monitors international troop casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Although NATO is committed to end its combat mission in 2014, ISAF troops continue to face terrorist attacks in various parts of the war-torn country although in a lesser scale.
President Hamid Karzai last week announced the final phase of security transition in Afghanistan from foreign forces to domestic forces.
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