NATO leaders prepare to discuss the continued presence of foreign forces in Afghanistan — and the timetable for their withdrawal — with nearly 140,000 foreign soldiers in the country.

They are deployed within the UN-mandated, NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and the US-led coalition Operation Enduring Freedom, which overthrew the Taliban in late 2001.

The United States is by far the biggest provider of foreign troops to Afghanistan, with at the moment more than 100,000 soldiers in the country split between the NATO force (90,000) and Operation Enduring Freedom (10,000).

Some 48 countries take part in ISAF, which has been deployed since mid-2003, including the 28 NATO member countries.

ISAF and Enduring Freedom are both under a single command in the form of US General David Petraeus, who succeeded general Stanley McCrystal last June.

Here are the main contributors to ISAF, according to data provided by NATO on Monday.

United States: 90,000

Britain: 9,500

Germany: 4,341

France: 3,850

Italy: 3,688

Canada: 2,922

Poland: 2,519

Turkey: 1,790

Romania: 1,648

Spain: 1,576

Australia: 1,550

Georgia: 924

Denmark: 750

The other participating states, listed in the order of their troop contributions are: Bulgaria (516), Hungary (502), Sweden (500), Belgium (491), Czech Republic (468), Norway (353), Croatia (299), Albania (258), Slovakia (250), South Korea (246), Netherlands (242), New Zealand (234), Lithuania (219), Latvia (189), Macedonia: 163, Finland (150), Estonia (140), Portugal (95), Azerbaijan (94), Greece (80), Slovenia (78), Mongolia (47), Bosnian (45), Armenia (40), Singapore (38), United Arab Emirates (35), Montenegro (31), Malaysia (30), Ukraine (16), Luxembourg (9), Ireland (7), Iceland (4), Austria (3).

Since 2001, 2,215 foreign soldiers have died in Afghanistan, including 1,385 Americans, 344 Britons, 152 Canadians and 50 French, according to a toll by AFP based on data from the independent website icasualties.org.

Since the beginning of the year, 643 foreign soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan. In 2009, which was at the time the most deadly for allied forces, 521 deaths were registered.

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