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Two US-led troops killed in Afghan war

28 June 2011 19:55 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Two US-led foreign soldiers have been killed in separate incidents in the troubled southern Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, NATO says, APA reports quoting Press TV.

The US-led military alliance says one of the soldiers was killed in a militant attack and the other one in a bomb blast.

The coalition has neither disclosed the nationality of the soldiers nor the exact location of the incidents.

At least 276 US-led foreign forces have been killed in Afghanistan so far this year.

Over 2,557 foreign troops have been killed since the US-led war began in Afghanistan a decade ago.

As the US-led forces casualties continue to rise in Afghanistan, public opinion in the United States and other Western countries is increasingly turning against the Afghan war.

The security situation has steadily deteriorated across Afghanistan over the past few years despite the presence of around 150,000 US-led foreign troops in the country.