2 NATO service members killed in Afghanistan

Associated Press

KABUL

The NATO military coalition said Sunday two service members were killed in an insurgent attack in the west of the country.

The military alliance known as ISAF didn’t provide further details. NATO also did not provide the nationalities of the dead. The deaths bring the number of international service members killed in Afghanistan so far this month to at least 44.

The latest casualties underscored the volatility of Afghanistan as NATO scales back its operations, planning to hand over security responsibility to local forces by the end of 2014.

The coalition also denied as “incorrect” Pakistani claims that its military had informed NATO 52 times in recent months that insurgents were crossing from Pakistan into Afghanistan.