U.S. Troop Fatalities Double in Afghanistan
A US soldier killed in Afghanistan on Sunday raised the American death toll in 2009 to exactly twice the number of those soldiers killed there in that country in 2008 After eight years in Afghanistan, 940 U -- and 613 coalition -- soldiers have died.
A U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan on Sunday raised the American death toll in 2009 to exactly twice the number of those soldiers killed there in that country in 2008. After eight years in Afghanistan, 940 U.S. — and 613 coalition — soldiers have died.
Casualty statistics are available at iCasualties. –JCL
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A US solder was killed in Afghanistan, NATO said on Sunday, raising the American death toll to twice the number of those killed there in 2008, according to an AFP tally.
The NATO-run International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the soldier died from an improvised explosive device (IED), the biggest killer of foreign troops in the eight-year battle to contain a Taliban insurgency.
“An ISAF service member from the United States died following an IED strike in southern Afghanistan Saturday,” the force said in a statement.
The death takes this year’s international military casualties in Afghanistan to 506, according to an AFP tally based on independent website icasualties.org which tracks military deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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