FACTBOX - Military deaths in Afghanistan

Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:02am EDT
 
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(Reuters) - Ten French soldiers have been killed in fighting with Taliban insurgents, an Afghan military official said on Tuesday. It brought the total number of French troops killed in Afghanistan to 22.

The soldiers, part of NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), were killed in a battle about 30 miles (50 km) east of Kabul in the biggest single loss of French troops in Afghanistan since 2001.

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 574

Britain 116

Canada 90

Germany 26*

Spain 23

France 22

Netherlands 16

Other nations 65

TOTAL: 932

* NOTE: Figures supplied by German Ministry of Defence.

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

(Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit; Editing by Michael Winfrey)

 

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