{"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:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?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. 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. This incident is under investigation. Additional information will be released as appropriate. NPR reports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-iUj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}