Two service members of the NATO-led Resolute Support were killed Saturday morning in Southern Afghanistan by two people wearing Aghan military uniforms, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation announced.
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KABUL-Two Afghan army recruits opened fire on worldwide coalition soldiers in Kandahar province on Saturday, killing two Romanians and wounding another, according to an Afghan official and a coalition statement.
The two North Atlantic Treaty Organisation soldiers killed Saturday by insurgents in Afghanistan were from Romania, Fox News has learned.
CNN is trying to confirm reports that the Taliban claimed responsibility.
Two members of NATO’s Resolute Support mission were killed in southern Afghanistan by men in Afghan uniform. It said the troops were training Afghan police officers.
In a similar attack in August a year ago, a man wearing an Afghan military uniform shot dead two American soldiers in the southern opium-rich province of Helmand.
Western officials said most attacks on foreign troops stem from personal grudges and cultural misunderstandings rather than insurgent plots.
Since Jan. 1 past year, Afghan security forces have assumed the full security charges from North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the United States forces after the foreign troops switched mission from combat to support role, which focuses on training, advising and assisting Afghan forces.
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The Afghan military, which has been built from scratch since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, has also struggled with insider attacks, high casualty rates and mass desertions.
