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August 26, 2009

US Deaths Make 2009 Deadliest Year for Foreign Troops
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Meanwhile, four US troops were killed in a roadside bombing in southern
Afghanistan. The deaths make 2009 the deadliest year for foreign troops
in Afghanistan since the US-led invasion of 2001. At least 295 foreign
troops have died this year, surpassing last year’s toll of 294. This
month is also the war’s second-deadliest for US troops, with forty-one
casualties.