Two U.S. and nine Afghan special operations forces soldiers are dead, with more wounded after a suspected green-on-blue attack in the Sherzad district of Nangarhar province, a U.S. official told Newsweek.
More than 2,400 U.S. personnel have been killed in Afghanistan since 2001, the year the United States and its allies intervened to overthrow a Taliban-led government allied with Al-Qaeda shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks. The conflict has since become the longest in U.S. history, and this latest incident comes as President Donald Trump pushes to end it.earlier this week that a peace deal between Washington and the Taliban was soon expected. Such an agreement may entail the U.S.
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said in December that the U.S. military"could go down to a lower number with or without that political agreement." Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday, however, the Trump administration sought"demonstrable evidence" that the Taliban was willing to end its violent tactics and talk directly with the Afghan government in Kabul.
Continued unrest across Afghanistan has repeatedly complicated efforts to reach an agreement. As U.S. and Taliban officials met for multiple rounds of peace talks in the Qatari capital of Doha over the past year, the Islamist militant group has continued to stage attacks on both military and civilian targets, calling for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. and partnered forces of the NATO Western military alliance.
Last month, two U.S. soldiers were killed and two more wounded when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device in the southern province of Kandahar. Two U.S. airmen died weeks later after their Bombardier E-11A crashed in Ghazni province, though the Pentagon has said"no indication it was caused by enemy fire.", a U.S. citizen has also been kidnapped by hostile forces in Afghanistan. Mark R.
In its latest report, the congressionally-mandated Office of the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction said Tuesday that the number of attacks launched by the Taliban and other militant groups in the last three months of 2019 was at the highest level than in that same period of any year since it began recording such data in 2010.
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