FACTBOX: Military deaths in Afghanistan

Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:46pm EDT
 
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(Reuters) - Two NATO soldiers have been killed in separate blasts in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said on Friday.

The defense ministry in Amsterdam said one of the dead was a Dutch soldier. Five Dutch soldiers died in Afghanistan in 2006.

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 380

Canada 54

Britain 53

Spain 20

Germany 18

Other nations 37

TOTAL: 562

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, www.icasualties.org/oef

 

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