Kabul, Afghanistan ? A British soldier was fatally shot Sunday as NATO-led troops went after Taliban insurgents in a southern mountain range, and a U.S. soldier suffered minor injuries in the suicide truck bombing of a military convoy in a neighboring province, officials said.

Officials said British and Afghan forces had used air power and ground troops to kill 17 Taliban fighters.

Afghan Foreign Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta, in an interview with The Associated Press, urged the international community to do more to stem the flow of what he called the sources of terrorism – Islamic extremists, weapons and terror funding – into the country.

He said his country remains the main victim of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network, and said eliminating the network was “an international task.”