US Soldier killed in Afghanistan

Chief Tango sends us a link to the Washington Post which reports that a US soldier was killed while fighting ISIS-Khorasan in the eastern province of Nangahar, Afghanistan;

The incident marks the first combat death in Afghanistan for 2017. Last month, three Special Operations soldiers were wounded during an apparent insider attack in Helmand Province, and 2016 saw the death of 10 U.S. service members by hostile fire and bomb attacks, both by the Taliban and the Islamic State. More than 1,800 U.S. troops have died in combat in Afghanistan since 2001, according to Pentagon statistics.

There are 8,500 U.S. troops still in Afghanistan, split between supporting the Afghan military and conducting counterterrorism operations.

CNN reports that he was a special operations soldier.