Foreign troop death toll hits 700 in Afghanistan

A U.S. soldier arrives at the site of a suicide car bomb attack in Kabul November 12, 2010.

Credit: Reuters/Omar Sobhani

KABUL | Sat Dec 18, 2010 8:22pm EST

KABUL (Reuters) - A member of the NATO-led force in Afghanistan was killed on Sunday, taking the total number of foreign troops killed in 2010 to 700, by far the deadliest year of the war since the Taliban were toppled in 2001 .

The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said one service member was killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan. It gave no other details, including the nationality of those killed.

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