Kabul , Afghanistan ( CNN ) -- NATO and Afghan forces fought back Taliban attackers who launched an assault Monday on a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan , near the border with Pakistan . The insurgents detonated explosives and then began firing guns in an area where NATO supply trucks were parked in Nangarhar province , said Ahmed Zia Abdulzai , a spokesman for the province 's governor . The initial attack was repulsed and Afghan and NATO troops engaged the militants in a firefight for about two hours , during which all the attackers were killed , Abdulzai said . No civilians or military personnel were killed , he said , and only a few NATO supply trucks caught fire during the violence . Firefighters are trying to put out the flames , he said . Taliban spokesman Zabiulah Mujahid claimed the attack , in which several suicide bombers participated , had killed soldiers at the base . But NATO said that no service members from its International Security Assistance Force had died . Situated at the border town of Torkham , the base is a transit point for the NATO supplies from Pakistan . The attack prompted authorities to close the border with Pakistan at Torkham and suspend traffic on the highway between Torkham and the Afghan city of Jalalabad . Militants in Afghanistan kill at least 12 . CNN 's Khushbu Shah and journalist Zahir Shah Sherazi contributed to this report .
Taliban insurgents detonate explosives and fire guns in the assault . NATO supply trucks catch fire amid violence . All the Taliban attackers are killed by Afghan and NATO forces , an official says . The Taliban claims it inflicted casualties , but NATO says no troops were killed .