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KABUL, the alliance announced on Monday.

The soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing in on Sunday, the ISAF media office said in a statement without giving the victims’ nationalities or the exact location of the incident.

Mostly US troops, who have borne the brunt of insurgent assaults, are stationed in the insurgency-plagued eastern parts of Afghanistan.

With the latest fatalities, the number of foreign troops killed in the country so far during the current year has increased to 131.

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