Three NATO soldiers were among eight people killed in bombings in southern Afghanistan this morning.
The multinational NATO-led International Security Assistance Force did not say how the soldiers were killed or give their nationalities.
All of the other 10 soldiers to die in Afghanistan this year - Australian, British, Canadian and US nationals - were also killed in the south, where insurgents hold sway in several districts.
There are nearly 70,000 international soldiers in Afghanistan fighting an insurgency led by the Taliban, who were in power between 1996 and 2001.
More than 295 international soldiers were killed in Afghanistan last year and just over 230 the previous year.
More foreign soldiers have been deployed to the country amid an upswing in insurgent violence.
In the southwestern town of Zaranj on the border with Iran, a suicide bomber detonated explosives in a fruit market.
The blast brought down several shops and killed five civilians as well as the local deputy provincial police operations chief.
Six others people, including a policeman and two children, were wounded.
