FACTBOX: Breakdown of troop numbers in Afghanistan

Thu Jun 12, 2008 5:21am EDT
 
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(Reuters) - Afghanistan meets international donors on Thursday in Paris, where President Hamid Karzai will ask for $50 billion to fund a development plan that his government has drawn up.

Here is a breakdown of current national deployments within the 40-nation NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, which according to NATO had some 52,908 troops as of June 3:

Country Troops

United States 23,550

Britain 8,530

Germany 3,370

Canada 2,500

Italy 2,350

Netherlands 1,770

France 1,670

Poland 1,140

Australia 1,100

Spain 800

Turkey 760

Denmark 690

Norway 580  Continued...

 

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