US-led trooper dies in Afghanistan

A bomb blast has claimed another soldier serving under the United States command in Afghanistan, NATO says.

The soldier, whose nationality was withheld, died in an explosion caused by an improvised explosive device in south Afghanistan on Friday, said the US-led military alliance NATO, AFP reported.

The mortality took to 122 the number of the foreign troops killed in Afghanistan since the beginning of the year.

The war, which, according to January opinion surveys, is opposed by more than half of the American people, is nearing its ninth year, having killed many thousands of Afghan civilians and yet short of bringing any sign of stability to the war-torn country.