KABUL, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Two soldiers of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force were killed and another wounded while conducting an operation in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, said an ISAF statement.

    An ISAF's convoy was struck by an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations, the statement added.

    The names and nationalities of the deceased are being withheld pending next of kin notification as in accordance with ISAF policy.

    No one claimed responsibility for that incident so far.

    Some 55,000 foreign troops are being deployed in this country for keeping security and fighting militants.

    Conflicts and Taliban-related violence have claimed the lives of more than 5,600 people mostly insurgents, according to officials this year in the war-torn Afghanistan.