“Two International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) service members died following an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in eastern Afghanistan today,” the ISAF said in a statement on Sunday.
Another US-led trooper was killed in a militant attack also in the eastern part of the country on Saturday.
The brief statement did not disclose the nationalities of the victims or the exact location of the attacks. However, the US-led troopers, deployed in southern Afghanistan, are mainly from the US, Britain, and Australia.
According to independent website icasualties.org, at least 247 US-led forces, most of them Americans, have died in Afghanistan so far this year.
Insecurity continues to rise across Afghanistan, despite the presence of about 130,000 US-led forces in the country.
The high number of military casualties in Afghanistan has intensified opposition in the United States and other members of the Western military alliance of NATO against the protracted war in the country.
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