NATO says more than 25 suspected insurgents have been killed in a coalition airstrike in eastern Afghanistan.

The coalition says a NATO force called for air support after coming under threat from insurgents on Saturday in the Nari district of Kunar province. That has been the scene of heavy fighting along the Pakistani border.

The coalition says another coalition patrol in the same province came under fire Saturday from small arms and rocket-propelled grenades. It says coalition forces returned fire, killing an unspecified number of insurgents in the Dara Pech district.