Afghanistan ? U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops clashed with insurgents while searching a compound near the Pakistani frontier on Friday, leaving one coalition soldier dead, a statement said.

Troops called in airstrikes, which “destroyed an insurgent cell” after the clash in Nari district of Kunar province, the coalition statement said.

The nationalities of the dead and three wounded soldiers were not released. Most of the troops in that area are American.

An Afghan soldier and an interpreter working for the coalition were also wounded, the statement said. It did not say how many suspected militants were killed.

U.S. troops are fighting Taliban and al-Qaida militants in the country’s east, which borders Pakistan. The number of attacks in the Afghan border areas has decreased recently, as militants step up assaults on Pakistani forces across the frontier.