Announcing the deaths, the Nato-led international coalition did not specify the victims' nationalities or say what had happened to the killer.
"Insider" attacks sharply increased this year, prompting the coalition to suspend joint operations this month.
However, such operations resumed in recent days, the Pentagon said.
The two new deaths occurred on Saturday in Wardak province, a spokesman for the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force said.
Officials say the incident took place at a checkpoint near an Afghan National Army base in the district of Sayedabad.
Source: International Security Assistance Force (Isaf)
The police chief of Wardak province told the BBC that a number of Afghan soldiers had also been killed, but this has not been independently confirmed.
It is not immediately clear what prompted the incident. Military officials from both sides have launched a joint investigation.
At least 52 foreign soldiers - about half of them Americans - have been killed in so-called "green on blue" attacks this year, compared to 35 for the whole of last year.
"I'm mad as hell about them, to be honest with you," Gen John Allen, the top commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, told CBS's 60 Minutes show, in an interview scheduled to be broadcast on Sunday.
"It reverberates everywhere across the United States. You know, we're willing to sacrifice a lot for this campaign, but we're not willing to be murdered for it."
It was announced this month that hundreds of soldiers in Afghanistan had been dismissed or detained after an inquiry into the surge of insider attacks.
Nato combat troops are set to withdraw by the end of 2014, but a central plank of the strategy is that foreign soldiers will serve alongside and train Afghans for many years to come.
Correspondents say that may not be realistic given the ever increasing number of Afghans who turn their weapons on their foreign allies.
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