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Fatalities by Province

Courtesy the Iraq diversion, the critical Counter- Terrorist campaign in Afghanistan had been deliberately underfunded and under-resourced for nearly a decade. The situation began to deteriorate steadily from 2005 onwards and the Taliban steadily increased its area of influence. The first five months of 2009 were characterised by a major spurt in Taliban activities:

• In 2009, there were 7228 IED attacks in Afghanistan, a 120 % increase over 2008
• There were 519 foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan in 2009. Of these, 316 were US troops.