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FACTBOX: Military deaths in Afghanistan

Sun Sep 7, 2008 5:01am EDT

(Reuters) - Two soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force were killed in the east of Afghanistan, the alliance said, the latest in a mounting toll of foreign troop casualties.

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It did not give the nationality of the troops or the circumstances under which they died.

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:

Britain 117

Canada 96

Denmark 17**

France 24*

Germany 28

Spain 23

Netherlands 16

United States 583

Other nations 51

TOTAL: 955

NOTES:

* Figures supplied by French Military.

** Figures supplied by Danish Central Command, includes 1 suicide.

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

(Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)
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