KABUL (AFP) – A US soldier deployed in Afghanistan to fight Taliban-linked militants was killed by a remote-controlled bomb, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said Sunday.

The death happened on Saturday in western Afghanistan, which has recently seen as escalation in Taliban activity, ISAF said in a statement.

It gave no further details of the incident.

So far in 2009, 408 foreign soldiers have died in Afghanistan, 242 of them American, according to an AFP count based on a running tally kept by the independent website icasualties.org.

The war, now in its ninth year, is intensifying as US President Barack Obama -- surprise recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize -- considers a request from military leaders for tens of thousands more troops.

NATO and the US have more than 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, battling to contain a resurgent Taliban.

Home-made bombs, or improved explosive devices (IEDs) have become the scourge of the efforts to eradicate the Taliban, as they are small, hidden and difficult to detect.

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Come to think about it, these all media point out the issues about 'A' US soilder was killed and so whatever. But what about those innocent people there in middle east? If all those 'introder soilder never interupt other country politics and send their soilder there, 'A' soilder wouldnt have died or wounded. right?

Just saying out.