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Kabul (AFP) Dec 2, 2010 A NATO soldier has been killed in a bomb explosion in southern Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said Thursday. "An (ISAF) servicemember died following an improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan" on Wednesday, it said. No further details were given, in line with ISAF policy. The latest death takes to 673 the number of foreign troops who have died in Afghanistan this year, according to an AFP count based on the independent icasualties.org web site, which tracks coalition fatalities and injuries. This year has been the deadliest for overseas troops since the US-led operation to oust the hardline Islamist Taliban regime began in late 2001, with the insurgency at its most violent in the volatile south and east. There are currently over 150,000 foreign troops from more than 42 countries in Afghanistan. The foreign coalition under the command of NATO and the United States, along with their Afghan counterparts, are trying to contain a bloody Taliban insurgency in the war-torn country.
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