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US-led soldier killed in Afghanistan
Thu Jun 23, 2011 9:21AM
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Another US-led soldier has been killed in eastern Afghanistan, a day after US President Barack Obama announced plans of a partial drawback of American troops from the war-ravaged country.
NATO's international Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement on Thursday that militants killed a US-led soldier in the strife-torn Asian country on Wednesday.
The brief statement did not provide further details.
According to the independent iCasualties.org website, at least 260 US-led soldiers, most of them Americans, have died in Afghanistan so far this year.
In a televised speech on Wednesday, US President Barack Obama declared a decision to bring home some 33,000 US troops from Afghanistan by next summer.
By the end of this year, 10,000 troops are to be withdrawn and another 23,000 are expected to be pulled out by the summer of 2012, he said.
As the US-led forces casualty figures persistently climb in Afghanistan, public opinion in the United States and other Western countries is increasingly turning against the Afghan war.
The security situation has steadily worsened across Afghanistan over the past few years despite the presence of around 150,000 US-led foreign troops in the country.
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Thu Jun 23, 2011 9:21AM
PressTV - US-led soldier killed in Afghanistan
Another US-led soldier has been killed in eastern Afghanistan, a day after US President Barack Obama announced plans of a partial drawback of American troops from the war-ravaged country.
NATO's international Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement on Thursday that militants killed a US-led soldier in the strife-torn Asian country on Wednesday.
The brief statement did not provide further details.
According to the independent iCasualties.org website, at least 260 US-led soldiers, most of them Americans, have died in Afghanistan so far this year.
In a televised speech on Wednesday, US President Barack Obama declared a decision to bring home some 33,000 US troops from Afghanistan by next summer.
By the end of this year, 10,000 troops are to be withdrawn and another 23,000 are expected to be pulled out by the summer of 2012, he said.
As the US-led forces casualty figures persistently climb in Afghanistan, public opinion in the United States and other Western countries is increasingly turning against the Afghan war.
The security situation has steadily worsened across Afghanistan over the past few years despite the presence of around 150,000 US-led foreign troops in the country.
MSH/GHN/MB