2 US-led soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Two foreign troops, including one American, are killed in southern Afghanistan, bringing the number of the US soldiers killed in the country since the beginning of this year to 328.

NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed the casualties in separate insurgent attacks in the troubled south on a Sunday statement.

An American died in the war-torn Afghanistan on Saturday following a Taliban-style bomb attack, AFP reported.

The deaths bring to 497 the total number of foreign troops killed in the war-ravaged country so far this year.

Despite the casualties, commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan General David Petraeus said last Tuesday that deployments would reach 150,000 within days.