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The year 2009 has already been a record-breaking year for the number of foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan since the US-led invasion ousted the Taliban following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
The independent icasualties website, which tracks military deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq, says more than 300 foreign troops have died here so far this year, compared with a death toll of 294 in all of 2008.
There are more than 100,000 soldiers from NATO and a separate US-led coalition in Afghanistan.
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