GENEVA, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirmed on Thursday that four of its staff members, including two expatriates, had been kidnapped by the "armed opposition" in Afghanistan.

Earlier, a spokesman for Taliban insurgents said they had kidnapped the four men southwest of the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, but would release them soon.

"We confirm that four ICRC staff members were seized by an armed opposition group on their way back to the delegation in Kabul in the district of Wardak, southwest of Kabul," ICRC spokeswoman Carla Haddad said in Geneva.

The expatriate staff were from Myanmar and Macedonia, while the other two were Afghan national employees, she said. The ICRC was in touch with "all parties" to resolve the situation swiftly, she said.

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