(Updates with new toll) July 13 (Reuters) - Insurgents killed nine U.S. soldiers in an assault on an Afghan army and NATO outpost in northeastern Afghanistan on Sunday, making it one of the worst days for foreign troops casualties in the country since 2001. The U.S. military said earlier that a roadside bomb had killed a soldier from the U.S.-led coalition force on Sunday in the southern province of Helmand. Here are figures for foreign military deaths as a result of violence or accidents in Afghanistan since the Taliban government was toppled in 2001: NATO/U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES: United States 544 Britain 110 Canada 87 Germany 26* Spain 23 Netherlands 16 Other nations 78 TOTAL: 884 * NOTE: Figures supplied by German Ministry of Defence. Sources: Reuters/icasualties (www.icasualties.org/oef), compiled from official figures. -- For a related news story click on [ID:nSP81504] (Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)
Indian soldiers stand behind pictures of the Indian victims of last Monday's suicide attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul at a commemoration ceremony, July 13, 2008. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani (AFGHANISTAN) ...
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