Aug 21 (Reuters) - Three soldiers from the NATO-led force were killed in a roadside bomb blast in eastern Afghanistan, the alliance said on Thursday, the latest foreign casualties in a week of rising violence. 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 578 Britain 116 Canada 90 Germany 26* Spain 23 France 24** Netherlands 16 Other nations 65 TOTAL: 938 NOTES: * Figures supplied by German Ministry of Defence. ** Figures supplied by French Military. Sources: Reuters/icasualties (www.icasualties.org/oef), compiled from official figures. (Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit;)
An unidentified soldier mourns near a flag-draped coffin as the country pays tribute to the 10 soldiers killed in an ambush in Afghanistan during a national ceremony at the Invalides in ...
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