An Afghan policeman shot and killed two members of the NATO-led coalition who were training police in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said Friday, the latest in a spate of "rogue" shootings by members of the country's security forces.
U.S. and NATO forces are ramping up efforts to train the Afghan army and police before a gradual drawdown of foreign forces begins from July. Under that security transition to Afghan forces, all foreign combat troops are due to leave by the end of 2014.
Highlighting the difficulty of that task, however, have been a string of incidents over the past 18 months where Afghan police and soldiers, or insurgents who have infiltrated security forces, have turned their weapons on their mentors.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said two of its service members had been killed in the latest incident in volatile Helmand province in the south Thursday.
In line with normal ISAF policy, it did not identify the nationalities of the service members killed. The overwhelming majority of foreign troops in the south are American.
It said they were part of a "mentoring team" working with a brigade of the Afghan National Civil Order Police (ANCOP), a unit of the Af
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