Two foreign soldiers killed in Afghan clashes

KABUL, June 14 (Reuters) Two foreign soldiers have been killed in the latest clashes in the most serious spell of violence in Afghanistan since the Taliban were overthrown in 2001, military officials said today.

An American soldier was killed in the southern province of Helmand yesterday, said Major Quentin Innes, a spokesman for international forces in the Afghan south.

The U.S. military said another foreign soldier was killed in the eastern province of Kunar, also yesterday. The US military did not identify the nationality of the second soldier.

Nearly 40 foreign soldiers have been killed in combat in Afghanistan this year, nearly 30 of them Americans.

In total, more than 900 people have been killed in violence in Afghanistan this year, more than 400 in May.

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