Military Deaths In Afghanistan

A suicide car bomb killed a U.S. soldier and four Afghan civilians in the Afghan capital on Saturday.

A British soldier was killed by insurgent fire on Saturday during a joint foot patrol with Afghan soldiers in the Sangin district of southern Helmand province, 490 km (305 miles) southwest of Kabul, the Defence Ministry said on Sunday.

A suicide car bomb killed a U.S. soldier and four Afghan civilians in the Afghan capital on Saturday, and one other U.S. soldier was killed when a helicopter crash-landed in eastern Afghanistan, officials said.

Here are figures for foreign military deaths as a result of violence or accidents in Afghanistan since 2001:

NATO/U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES:

Britain 142

Canada 107

Denmark 22**

France 24*

Germany 30

Spain 25

Netherlands 18

United States 640

Other nations 58

TOTAL: 1,066

NOTES:

** Figures supplied by Danish Central Command, includes one suicide.

* Figures supplied by French military.

Sources: Reuters/icasualties (www.icasualties.org/oef), compiled from official figures.