NATO Says Soldier Killed On Patrol In Afghanistan

KABUL — A soldier serving with NATO's forces in Afghanistan has been killed in the country's south, where the fight against the Taliban is at its fiercest, NATO said Monday.

The soldier was killed on Sunday while on combat patrol, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.
The death brings to 329 the number of foreign soldiers to have died in the Afghan war so far this year, according to an AFP tally based on that kept by the independent icasualties.org website.
The Fourth of July casualty, the sixth for the month, came as US General David Petraeus assumed command on Sunday of the 140,000 NATO and US troops in Afghanistan fighting the insurgency.
He replaced his sacked predecessor US General Stanley McChrystal, and takes over as criticism of the war, increasingly seen as bogged down to the Taliban's advantage, is reaching a crescendo.
Another 10,000 foreign troops are due to deploy to Afghanistan by August as part of a plan to intensify pressure on the insurgents, mainly in the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar, and speed an end to the nine-year war.

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