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Kabul (AFP) May 2, 2010 A soldier serving with NATO's International Security Assistance Force died following an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the military said. The ISAF statement did not reveal the soldier's nationality, in line with alliance policy. The death brings to 175 the number of foreign soldiers who have died this year as a result of the war in Afghanistan, according to an AFP count based on the independent icasualties.org website. A total of 520 foreign soldiers died in 2009 in Afghanistan, which is in the grip of a bloody insurgency waged by remnants of the Taliban since their ouster from power in a US-led invasion in 2001. NATO and the United States are throwing thousands of extra troops into Afghanistan. Their deployment is to peak at 150,000 in August under a strategy designed to bring a swift end to the conflict. Most of the extra troops are deploying in the south, the heartland of the insurgency, with particular attention paid to the Kandahar and Helmand provinces. More than two thirds of the international force is from the United States.
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