Aug 18 (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents killed a British soldier in an attack on his patrol in the southern province of Helmand on Monday, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said. 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 572 Britain 116 Canada 90 Germany 26* Spain 23 Netherlands 16 Other nations 76 TOTAL: 919 * 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)
Supporters of Pakistan's Islamic party Jamat-e-Islami burn an effigy of U.S. President George W. Bush and a U.S flag during a protest to show their solidarity with U.S.-trained neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui ...