US FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN GET BIG BLOW

US FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN GET BIG BLOW

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August 13, 2022

Eight American troops died in attacks in southern Afghanistan, including a car bombing and gunfight outside a police compound in Kandahar, officials said on July 14  as the Taleban push back against a coalition effort to secure the volatile region. In the southern city of Kandahar, a suicide attacker slammed a car bomb into the gate of the headquarters of the elite Afghan National Civil Order Police late Tuesday night, a NATO statement said. Minutes later, insurgents opened fire with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. Three US troops, an Afghan policeman and five civilians died in the attack, but NATO said the insurgents failed to enter the compound. Four more American troops were killed Wednesday by a roadside bomb in the south, while one more US service member died the same day of wounds from a gunbattle. So far in July, 45 international troops have died in Afghanistan, 33 of them Americans.