Two American soldiers were killed and six others were wounded in a shooting attack inside a military base in Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan, according to a statement by the American forces. The Americans.
On Saturday evening, the situation was still hazy in the General Command headquarters in Sherzad, as Afghan security sources told the French Press Agency that at least one Afghan soldier shot his American colleagues inside the barracks.
For his part, a spokesman for the American forces in Afghanistan, Colonel Sony Legate, said in a statement that "a joint American and Afghan force operating in Nangarhar province came under direct fire." "We assess the situation, and we will provide additional information when it is available," he added.
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However, Agence France-Presse quoted an Afghan security source as saying that "an Afghan soldier opened fire" at American soldiers inside the barracks, which led to a clash between the two parties, stressing that "the shooting and clashes continued for a long time."
Several Afghan security sources confirmed that the clashes took place between American and Afghan forces.
According to an Afghan government official, "several helicopters landed and took off from the headquarters of the General Command to evacuate the wounded."
It is noteworthy that the past year was the bloodiest for US forces in Afghanistan since the combat operations officially ended at the end of 2014.
Last December, Taliban militants who infiltrated the Afghan army killed nine Afghan soldiers in the center of the country. Last July, an Afghan soldier killed two members of the American forces while they were visiting an Afghan army base in Kandahar.
US President Donald Trump has long questioned the viability of keeping troops overseas, and has described the war in Afghanistan that began after the September 11, 2001 attacks as a drain on Americans ’lives and money.