FACTBOX: Military deaths in Afghanistan
(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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