March 21 (Reuters) - A Romanian soldier was killed and another was wounded in Afghanistan, north of Qalat on Thursday when their armoured vehicle, a Humvee, hit an improvised explosive device, Romania's defence ministry said. 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 487 Britain 89 Canada 81 Spain 23 Germany 26* Other nations 75 TOTAL: 781 * 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)
Afghan girls attend their first day of class at a new school built with German aid money in the village of Deh Hassan, northern Afghanistan, March 18, 2008, during a visit ...
