The U.S. Defense Department said six U.S. soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber near Bagram air base in Afghanistan, in the deadliest attack on global forces since August.
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In a statement issued Monday night, the NY police commissioner, William J. Bratton, said that Detective Lemm was one of the Americans killed. He leaves behind a wife and three children. “The suicide bomber was riding a motorcycle and struck a joint patrol” of Afghan and American soldiers, Mr. Qudosi said. A US contractor and two other service members were also injured in the attack.
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Many of those were victims of Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), the weapon of choice for the Taliban for much of the conflict, while others met their fate in so-called “green on blue” attacks as the people they were helping and mentoring turned on them.
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Helmand is a strategic province, as it produces the majority of the world’s opium – used the help fund the insurgency.
The situation has reached critical mass in Helmand Province, where Police Chief Mohammad Dawood says that he’s surrounded by dead bodies. trapped inside his headquarters.
United States president Barack Obama in October announced that thousands of American troops would remain in Afghanistan past 2016, backpedalling on previous plans to reduce the force and acknowledging that Afghan forces are not ready to stand alone.
In his open letter to Ghani on Facebook, Rasulyar detailed problems with logistics and evacuation of wounded personnel, and noted that foreign forces only observe, according to the “train, assist, advise” mandate adopted by North Atlantic Treaty Organisation this year, rather than join their Afghan counterparts in combat. “USA and Afghan military leaders say they are expecting a hot winter, followed by a tough fight throughout 2016”.
“It is with deep regret that I learned today that six US service members died in Afghanistan Monday”.
In a press conference on Monday morning, Helmand’s governor said the main security buildings in Sangin were under government control, as did an Afghan army spokesman.
Mir compared Helmand to Kunduz, the northern Afghan city that the Taliban took over and held for three days in September, sending shockwaves across a country that had come to believe the insurgents were not strong enough to take urban areas.
Top security official Mohammad Rasool Zazai said fighting between security forces and insurgents were still underway and certain checkposts were recaptured. More than 100 of them were British soldiers.
Helmand’s governor, Mirza Khan Rahimi, insisted the authorities were still in control but his own deputy said that Sangin had been overrun.
Worldwide troops ended combat operations in Afghanistan past year.
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Qader said he fled to the provincial capital Lashkar Gah after a mortar landed on his house, wounding his infant son and daughter.
