March 9 (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed a soldier from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, (ISAF) and wounded another in the province of Paktia, an ISAF statement said. ISAF did not release the nationality of the dead soldier however, but most troops operating in eastern Afghanistan are American. Ottawa said a Canadian soldier died last Sunday when his vehicle hit an explosive device. More than 200 foreign troops were killed in Afghanistan in 2007. Here are figures for foreign military deaths in Afghanistan since the Taliban government was toppled in 2001: NATO/U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES: United States 485 Britain 89 Canada 79 Spain 23 Germany 26* Other nations 73 TOTAL: 775 * NOTE: Figures supplied by German Ministry of Defence. Sources: Reuters/icasualties (www.icasualties.org/oef), compiled from official figures (Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)
Protesters burn Danish and Dutch flags during a demonstration in Herat province March 8, 2008. About 15,000 people protested in Afghanistan on Saturday to condemn the reprinting of a cartoon of ...
