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FACTBOX: Military deaths in Afghanistan
(Reuters) - A Taliban suicide bomber killed up to 12 people at the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday in an attack the rebels said was aimed at Dick Cheney, but the visiting U.S. vice president was not hurt.
An American and South Korea soldier were among those killed in the blast, NATO and Korean officials said. NATO said 27 people were wounded.
Here are the latest figures for foreign military deaths in Afghanistan since the Taliban government was toppled in 2001:
NATO/U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES:
United States 371
Britain 48
Canada 44
Spain 20
Germany 18
Other nations 35
TOTAL: 536
Last year was the bloodiest in Afghanistan since U.S.-led forces overthrew the Taliban in 2001.
More than 4,000 people were killed in fighting in 2006, a quarter of them civilians and more than 170 of them foreign soldiers.
Sources: Reuters/icasualties.org
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