The British Defense Ministry says a British soldier serving with the NATO force in Afghanistan has been shot dead in southern Helmand province.
A NATO statement says the soldier was killed Sunday during an attack against insurgents in the Musa Qala district.
In other violence, in the same province, Afghan authorities say 17 Taleban insurgents have been killed Saturday.
Local officials say three insurgents were killed in a clash in the mountainous Garmser district. Hours later, during a search operation in the same district, troops killed 14 more insurgents.
In neighboring Kandahar province, an American soldier was wounded when a suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden car near a military convoy on the main highway to Kabul.
And, armed men attacked a police post overnight in the Murghab district of western Badghis province, killing at least two Afghan border police.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP and AP.