英语文摘：One foreign troop killed in Operation Moshtarak in south Afghanistan

KABUL, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- A servicemember with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed by small- arms fire in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday.

A press release issued by the ISAF said the casualty was related to the ongoing massive Operation Moshtarak, or Togetherness, which involved around 15,000 ISAF and Afghan soldiers in Marjah area in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province.

The operation, which aimed at uprooting the Taliban in Marjah, has so far claimed over 40 lives of the insurgents.