Eleven people, including two NATO soldiers and five Taliban militants, were killed in a series of clashes in Afghanistan since Saturday night.
A NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troop was killed my militants in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, an ISAF statement said, without disclosing his nationality.
A British soldier belonging to the ISAF was killed in southern province of Helmand. With this, the number of British troops killed in Afghanistan since the ouster of Taliban regime in 2001 rose to 150.
Five suspected Taliban insurgents were killed and four others arrested in an operation by U.S.-led coalition forces in Maiwand district of southern Kandahar province on Sunday.
Taliban militants attacked an Afghan police unit in Nawa district of southern Helmand province Saturday night, killing two policemen.
Kandahar city's mayor escaped unhurt in a roadside bomb explosion that targeted him on Sunday morning. One bystander was killed and six others wounded in the attack.
A suicide car bomb explosion near a convoy of foreign forces in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday afternoon killed two civilians.
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