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NATO soldier killed in E. Afghanistan

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-09-11 15:42

KABUL: One soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed Thursday in a hostile fire incident in eastern Afghanistan, said a statement of the alliance issued here on Friday.

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"ISAF's efforts are dangerous and challenging but we are committed to helping build a safer and better Afghanistan and we will succeed in this endeavor," said an ISAF spokesman Brigadier- General Eric Tremblay.

However, it did not disclose any further information adding "it is ISAF policy not to release the nationality of any casualties before the relevant national authority doing so."

International troops, mostly from America, have been deployed in eastern Afghanistan where has been used by Taliban militants as their safe heaven.

Conflicts and violence in Afghanistan have left at least 330 foreign soldiers, including some 192 U.S. troopers, dead so far this year.