FACTBOX: Military deaths in Afghanistan

Fri Jan 9, 2009 8:27am EST
 
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(Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers and a senior Afghan policeman were killed late on Thursday by a Taliban suicide bomber in the Maiwand district of Kandahar province, NATO said.

Here are figures for foreign military deaths as a result of violence or accidents in Afghanistan since 2001:

NATO/U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES:

Britain 138

Canada 107

Denmark 22**

France 24*

Germany 30

Spain 25

Netherlands 18

United States 634

Other nations 56

TOTAL: 1,054

NOTES:

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

* Figures supplied by French military.  Continued...

 

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