{"id":72683,"date":"2017-06-11T08:30:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T12:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72683"},"modified":"2017-06-11T08:36:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T12:36:36","slug":"3us-soldiers-killed-one-wounded-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72683","title":{"rendered":"3 US soldiers killed, one wounded in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/News-Releases\/News-Release-View\/Article\/1210295\/three-us-soldiers-killed-in-afghanistan\/\">Department of Defense<\/a> announced that three US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan yesterday;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three U.S. soldiers were killed in eastern Afghanistan today. One U.S. soldier was wounded and has been evacuated for medical treatment. Next of kin notification is underway. <\/p>\n<p>This incident is under investigation. Additional information will be released as appropriate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2017\/06\/10\/532383678\/at-least-2-u-s-soldiers-killed-in-insider-attack-in-afghanistan?utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=news\">NPR<\/a> reports that it was a &#8220;green on blue&#8221; attack;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Afghan soldier opened fire on his U.S. counterparts on Saturday, killing three Americans and wounding at least one other. A spokesman for the provincial governor of Nangarhar, in eastern Afghanistan, confirmed that the incident occurred during an operation in the district of Achin, on the Pakistan border.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In (a) joint US-Afghan military operation &#8230; American troops were killed when an Afghan member of army commando opened fire on them,&#8221; Attaullah Khogyani told Al-Jazeera earlier in the day. &#8220;The Afghan commando was also killed in counterattack.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted2.ap.org\/APDEFAULT\/3d281c11a96b4ad082fe88aa0db04305\/Article_2017-06-10-AS%E2%80%94Afghanistan-US%20Soldiers\/id-6689215f08054206880ca6c3ed2e2339\">The Associated Press<\/a> reports that the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement that a Taliban loyalist had infiltrated the Afghan army &#8220;just to attack foreign forces.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Defense announced that three US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan yesterday; Three U.S. &hellip; <a title=\"3 US soldiers killed, one wounded in Afghanistan\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72683\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">3 US soldiers killed, one wounded in Afghanistan<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}