It appears that Afghan security forces, aided by coalition troops, killed 100-suspected Taliban rebels in military operation in southwestern Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said Saturday, according to AFP. The new deaths bring to 67 the number of international troops who died in Afghanistan this year, most of them in hostile action.

Meanwhile, two NATO troops were killed Saturday in a Taliban suicide car bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan, and the insurgent Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast, similar to scores of others carried out by the group.

According to an AFP reporter, a U.S. Humvee was destroyed in the attack. “It’s laying upside down in the middle of the road,” he said.

ISAF spokesman Carlos Branco mentioned that two other ISAF soldiers were injured in a roadside bombing on Saturday in Paktia province, a troubled region in the country’s east bordering Pakistan.

“During two days of operations more than 100 enemies of peace and stability were killed,” ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said, adding that security forces were still chasing rebels in the district.

18 other Taliban-linked militants were killed in other operations by Afghan and foreign troops in southern Kandahar province, a police commander said.

“In the past three days we've killed 16 Taliban including two commanders in Zhari and Panjwayi district. They were killed in an operation launched to clear the area of the enemy,” said the Kandahar police chief, Sayed Agha Saqeb, according to the same source.

Two other militants died in a gunfight with police elsewhere in Kandahar.

Meanwhile, in southern Zabul province overnight, suspected Taliban militants gunned down a district governor and his bodyguard, deputy provincial governor Gulab Shah Alikhail declared.

An Afghan soldier was killed in a firefight with militants in the same region and the defense ministry mentioned that another Afghan soldier was killed Friday when a base came under heavy fire from militants in Helmand province in the south.