Kabul, September 27: Three French soldiers serving under ISAF command in Afghanistan have reportedly been killed in Afghanistan, an official statement reveals.
The French presidency said in a statement on Sunday that the three soldiers were killed in an operation in Afghanistan.
The statement gave no further details of the location where the soldiers from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed.
France has 3,160 soldiers in Afghanistan, serving as part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 64,500 strong force. As of September 11, 2009, France announced a total loss of 31 soldiers in the country.
The news comes a day after General Stanley McChrystal, the US commander of the Western forces in Afghanistan, officially asked the US and NATO military chiefs for as many as 500,000 soldiers.
—–Agencies