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FACTBOX-Military deaths in Afghanistan

Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:56am EDT

(Reuters) - A soldier from U.S.-led coalition forces died on Monday from wounds he suffered in a roadside bomb in southern Helmand province the previous day, the U.S. military said.

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NATO-led troops killed 20 Taliban rebels in an air strike when the insurgents ambushed a joint convoy of NATO and Afghan forces in southeastern Khost province on Sunday. NATO said one of its soldiers was killed in the Taliban attack.

Here are figures for foreign military deaths as a result of violence or accidents in Afghanistan since the Taliban government was toppled in 2001:

NATO/U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES:

United States 559

Britain 110

Canada 88

Germany 26*

Spain 23

Netherlands 16

Other nations 75

TOTAL: 897

* NOTE: Figures supplied by German Ministry of Defense.

Sources: Reuters/icasualties (www.icasualties.org/oef), compiled from official figures.

-- For a related news story click on (Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)
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