[Jpost] Two US service members were killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the NATO...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
-led Resolute Support mission said in a statement.
It gave no further details and withheld the names of the service members until next of kin were informed.
The latest deaths bring the tally of US service member deaths in Afghanistan to at least six in 2019 and a total of at least 65 US military deaths since January 2015, according to US government and NATO reports.
| Update from Al Ahram at 12:55 p.m. EDT: |
...mindless ferocity in a turban...claimed in a statement they killed two American soldiers in an ambush in Sayed Abad district of southern Wardak province on Wednesday, but there was no immediate confirmation from NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
whether it was the same attack.
The blast brings to nine the number of US service members killed in Afghanistan so far this year, compared to 12 killed in all of 2018.