KABUL, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) killed up to 14 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan's eastern Nuristan province, an ISAF spokesman, Maj. Luke Knittig said Wednesday.

    "The Taliban attacked our convoy in Kamdish district Tuesday and we successfully rescued our convoy and in the process as many as 14 militants were killed," he told Xinhua.

    A Taliban spokesman claimed that 10 foreign soldiers were killed in militants' attack.

    Knitigg rejected the claim by saying, "No ISAF soldier was injured, only one ISAF vehicle was damaged in the incident."

    Taliban-led insurgency has claimed the lives of more than 2,400 people mostly insurgents since beginning 2006 in the post-Taliban Afghanistan. Enditem