2014 recorded the lowest number of NATO troop casualties in last 10 years in Afghanistan.
According to ICasualties.org, an independent website that monitors international troop casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, 75 troops from NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed last year.
The war-torn country has been witnessing a downward trend in coalition military personnel death toll since 2010 when the military alliance suffered the worst losses of lives in its more than a decade old war against terrorism in the country.
The figures were worse in the previous years: 521 deaths in 2009, 711 deaths in 2010, 566 deaths in 2011, 402 deaths in 2012, and 161 deaths in 2013.
Successful stepped up security operations to dislodge Taliban militants from their strongholds and the increased efficiency of the Afghan forces that fought jointly with foreign troops are cited as the main reason behind significant reduction in troop deaths.
U.S. soldiers, constituting a major chunk of the foreign force, were the worst-hit in 2014 as it was all through the 14 years, with 55 deaths. Britain, second largest contributor to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), followed losing 6 service personnel, the website said.
The long-stretched military mission in Afghanistan has so far cost NATO and allied nations the lives of 3,485 soldiers, out of which 2,356 were Americans.
The transition to Afghan full security responsibility was completed at the end of 2014, with ISAF winding up its security operations in the country. U.S. and coalition troops withdrew to advisory or supporting role renaming their mission to Resolute Support.
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