Six foreign troops, including a Polish national, have been killed in bombings in Afghanistan.
The deaths make it the deadliest day for international soldiers in the war-torn nation this year.
Four of the foreign troops serving in the US-led coalition were killed when insurgents attacked them with an improvised bomb and small arms fire just outside the southern city of Kandahar.
Another soldier serving under the same deployment died in a similar bomb explosion overnight in the south-western province of Farah.
In another bomb attack a Polish soldier in the separate NATO-led International Security Assistance Force was killed in the eastern province of Paktika.
Four other soldiers were reportedly injured.
99 foreign soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan this year, 20 of them in May and 32 others since the beginning of June, the deadliest month for the deployment this year.
Meanwhile, the US-led force said that 35 militants died in operations across the country in the last 24 hours.
