By Xinhua,
Kabul : One soldier with the U.S.-led Coalition forces was killed in southern Afghan province of Helmand Wednesday morning, said a Coalition statement.
The Coalition forces were conducting combat operations when their vehicle was targeted by a roadside bombing, the statement said.
The identity and nationality of the service member will be released pending notification of next of kin, it added.
In addition, one soldier of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) ,according to the other statement released earlier, has been killed while on patrol in a Tuesday explosion in Helmand.
International forces based in Afghanistan have suffered a loss of over 100 soldiers this year as the war-battered nation has increasingly been the scene of Taliban-led insurgency.
A total of 70,000 multi-national troops are deployed across Afghanistan under the flags of the NATO-led ISAF and the U.S.-led Coalition forces respectively for maintaining stability and helping in reconstruction.