There are some 140,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan targeting the Taliban Five Nato troops have been killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, the US-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) says.
Officials gave no further details about the incident or the nationality of the victims.The deaths raise to 51 the number of foreign service personnel killed in Afghanistan so far this month.
On Saturday, 30 US soldiers died when their helicopter was apparently shot down by Taliban insurgents.
Six Afghan troops and an Afghan civilian interpreter were also killed.
Many of the US soldiers were members of Seal Team Six, the elite special forces unit whose members undertook the May raid into Pakistan in which al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was killed.
It was the deadliest incident for the coalition in the decade-old US-led Nato war in Afghanistan.
The recent spike in casualties comes as foreign troops begin the first phase of a gradual process to hand over security responsibility to Afghan forces.
There are some 140,000 foreign troops - about 100,000 of them American - in Afghanistan, targeting the Taliban and training local troops to take over security.
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