There are four fundamental forces in nature:
Strong force
Weak force
Electromagnetism (EM) Light is an electromagnetic wave
Gravity
All of the fundamental forces are considered Exchange Forces. In other words the force involves an exchange of one or more particles.
The exchange particles are as follows:
Strong The pion (and others)
Electromagnetic (EM) The photon
Weak The W and Z
Gravity Believed to be the graviton
An addition by Physicist:
Note: The pion does mediate the inter-nucleon force. That force isn't fundamental, however. The fundamental force is the inter-quark force that binds the quarks into hadrons (such as protons, neutrons and pions), and that is what we usually mean by the strong force, nowadays. The force between hadrons is a residual color dipole interaction that is analogous to the Van der Waals force in electromagnetism.