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FACTBOX: Military deaths in Afghanistan

Sat Jul 4, 2009 6:28pm IST
 
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(Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers were killed in a complex attack on a base in southeast Afghanistan that ended with air strikes Saturday, the U.S. military said, two days after a major operation against the Taliban was launched in the south.

A Canadian soldier was killed in bomb blast Friday southwest of Kandahar.

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 171

Canada 121

Denmark 22**

France 28*

Germany 35  Continued...

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