Afghanistan: NATO's 2011 Death Toll At 511
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Xinhua News Agency
November 1, 2011
November begins with casualties on NATO in Afghanistan as blast kills 2 soldiers
By Abdul Haleem, Zhang Jianhua
KABUL: Like in the previous months in militancy-plagued Afghanistan, the unabated militancy did not spare the NATO-led multinational...force in the war-torn country as militants' activities left two soldiers dead in the first day of November, bringing the fatalities of the alliance to 511 since January this year.
Two soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) lost their lives as an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went off in Afghanistan on Tuesday, the military alliance confirmed in a press release issued here in Afghan capital Kabul.
"Two International Security Assistance Force service members died following an improvised explosive device attack in eastern Afghanistan today," said the press release.
Nevertheless, it did not identify the nationalities of the victims and the exact place of the incident, saying it is ISAF policy to defer casualty identification procedures to the relevant national authorities.
Troops mostly from the U.S. have been stationed in the troubled eastern provinces along the border with Pakistan's tribal areas.
From January to October this year, according to iCasaulties, a website tracking the casualties of U.S.-led war on terror, 509 service members of NATO-led ISAF with 40 of them killed only in October in Afghanistan.
According to iCasualties, 382 out of the 509 service members killed in the militancy-ridden Afghanistan since January 2011 were Americans.
Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) has been proved as a deadly weapon used by militants, and according to iCasualties 217 IED attacks had caused 439 deaths to the NATO-forces by October this year.
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