KABUL, Aug 19: Four foreign soldiers were killed in two clashes in Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, the latest casualties among foreign forces in the rising violence with the Taliban.

Three soldiers with U.S.-led coalition forces were killed in a clash in the eastern province of Kunar. A soldier with NATO troops was killed along with an Afghan soldier in a gun battle with Taliban fighters in the southern province of Uruzgan.

Three other NATO soldiers were wounded in the Uruzgan incident, a spokesman for the force said.

“We know that three coalition soldiers were killed today in action in Kunar,” Sergeant Chris Miller, a coalition spokesman told Reuters.

The identities of the victims were not known immediately. It was also not clear if there were casualties among the Taliban combatants.—Reuters