By NBC News staff and wire reports
Two U.S. service members were killed in an insurgent attack in Afghanistan on Saturday, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.
The attack occurred in the country's eastern Ghazni province, ISAF said.
There were no other immediate details and ISAF said identification of victims is deferred to the Department of Defense.
Elsewhere in Afghanistan Saturday, two suicide attackers blew themselves up near a NATO base in the country's east, killing at least 12 people and wounding more than 50, Afghan officials said.
Shahidullah Shadid, a spokesman for the Wardak provincial governor, said the attack took place at dawn Saturday in the province's Sayed Abad district.
He says one suicide bomber with a vest rigged with explosives blew himself up outside a compound housing the district governor's office, while another in a fuel tanker detonated his bomb on a road separating the compound from a NATO base.
Shadid said the dead include eight civilians and four Afghan police. He says no NATO troops were killed, but two were lightly wounded.
There was no immediate NATO comment on that attack.
This is a breaking news story. Please check back for more updates.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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