The Year 2009 has already proved the deadliest for the forces of the United States and its allies in Afghanistan. With the death of a U.S. soldier on Saturday, U.S. military fatalities in Afghanistan this year have increased to exactly twice of those in the previous year. According to statistics released by an independent website today, the killed soldier raised the U.S. death toll in Afghanistan this year to 310, while 155 U.S. soldiers were killed in the same country last year. The UK, which has the second largest forces in Afghanistan, has seen its armed forces fatalities reach 106 this year, more than twice of the 51 soldiers killed in 2008. According to the website, deaths of foreign troops in Afghanistan also registered a sharp rise from 295 in 2008 to 506 this year, up by more than 70 percent. A total of 940 U.S. soldiers have died in the U.S.-led Afghanistan War so far, while the total fatalities of coalition troops have mounted to 1,553.