One US-led soldier serving with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has been killed in an attack by the Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan.

The US-led Western military alliance confirmed the Wednesday incident. However, there was no report on the exact location of the incident or the soldier’s nationality.

Earlier on January 16, another US-led soldier was killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) in war-torn Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, a British soldier serving in the Lashkar Gah district of Helmand Province also died at a UK hospital on the same day as a result of injuries he had received two days earlier in an IED blast in Afghanistan.

According to the website icasualties.org, a total of 3,255 US-led troops have lost their lives in Afghanistan since 2001, when the United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan as part of Washington’s so-called war on terror.

The offensive removed the Taliban from power, but insecurity continues to rise across the country, despite the presence of thousands of US-led troops.

Hundreds of foreign soldiers were killed in the war-torn country in 2012 alone.

The increasing number of military casualties in Afghanistan has caused widespread anger in the US and other NATO member states, undermining public support for the Afghan war.

MAM/JR