International soldier killed in Kabul blast

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KABUL (AFP) — A bomb struck a convoy of the US-led military coalition on the outskirts of Kabul on Sunday, killing one soldier and wounding another, the force said.

Afghan police said the bomb was planted on a dirt road and appeared to have been remotely detonated.

"A coalition service member was killed and another wounded when their convoy struck an IED (improvised explosive device) this morning in Kabul," the coalition said in a statement.

It did not release the nationalities of the soldiers. Most troops in the coalition are from the United States, which has about 32,000 soldiers in Afghanistan to help fight extremist militants, mainly Taliban.

The international forces in the war-wracked country have lost 150 soldiers in Afghanistan this year, most...