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Kabul (AFP) Nov 17, 2010 NATO leaders prepare to discuss the continued presence of foreign forces in Afghanistan -- and the timetable for their withdrawal -- with nearly 140,000 foreign soldiers in the country. They are deployed within the UN-mandated, NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and the US-led coalition Operation Enduring Freedom, which overthrew the Taliban in late 2001. The United States is by far the biggest provider of foreign troops to Afghanistan, with at the moment more than 100,000 soldiers in the country split between the NATO force (90,000) and Operation Enduring Freedom (10,000). Some 48 countries take part in ISAF, which has been deployed since mid-2003, including the 28 NATO member countries. ISAF and Enduring Freedom are both under a single command in the form of US General David Petraeus, who succeeded general Stanley McCrystal last June. Here are the main contributors to ISAF, according to data provided by NATO on Monday. United States: 90,000 Britain: 9,500 Germany: 4,341 France: 3,850 Italy: 3,688 Canada: 2,922 Poland: 2,519 Turkey: 1,790 Romania: 1,648 Spain: 1,576 Australia: 1,550 Georgia: 924 Denmark: 750 The other participating states, listed in the order of their troop contributions are: Bulgaria (516), Hungary (502), Sweden (500), Belgium (491), Czech Republic (468), Norway (353), Croatia (299), Albania (258), Slovakia (250), South Korea (246), Netherlands (242), New Zealand (234), Lithuania (219), Latvia (189), Macedonia: 163, Finland (150), Estonia (140), Portugal (95), Azerbaijan (94), Greece (80), Slovenia (78), Mongolia (47), Bosnian (45), Armenia (40), Singapore (38), United Arab Emirates (35), Montenegro (31), Malaysia (30), Ukraine (16), Luxembourg (9), Ireland (7), Iceland (4), Austria (3). Since 2001, 2,215 foreign soldiers have died in Afghanistan, including 1,385 Americans, 344 Britons, 152 Canadians and 50 French, according to a toll by AFP based on data from the independent website icasualties.org. Since the beginning of the year, 643 foreign soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan. In 2009, which was at the time the most deadly for allied forces, 521 deaths were registered.
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