The statement also said that 19 American “occupiers” were killed and “a huge number” wounded. Gen. John Campbell, the USA commander in Afghanistan, and the rest of the military coalition said that “our heartfelt sympathies go out to the families and friends of those affected in this tragic incident, especially during this holiday season”, Shoffner added.
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The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
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The attack remains under investigation, said Col. Michael Lawhorn, a spokesman for NATO’s Operation Resolute Support.
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“Are we going to make a bigger effort into Afghanistan again?”
“The understanding is that all stakeholders should be there, everyone with a stake in this”, said the official, requesting anonymity as he was not authorised to speak to the media on the issue.
Earlier, an Afghan official put the number of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation personnel dead at three, with another two wounded.
An NYPD detective was among the six American service members killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan on Monday, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said in a statement. “On Aug. 22, three American contractors with the RS base were killed in a suicide attack in Kabul”, notes AP, referring to Monday’s attack.
Sangin district has fallen to Taliban control several times and the fighting has caused significant casualties among Afghan and worldwide forces.
On Monday, just as the Taliban claimed the Bagram attack, the group also said it had taken Sangin, a district of Helmand province that once symbolized the success of Obama’s decision to send additional USA forces in 2010.
Only Afghan army facilities in the district had not been taken by the insurgents, he said. It has ramped up its attacks this year, inflicting heavier casualties on Afghan security forces.
“If the British and American forces do not help, and the government does not think about Helmand, Helmand will be in danger”, she said. “In some places, we leave areas for tactical reasons, but all forces are working together well and very soon we will have major achievements to report”, Police Chief Abul Rahman Sarjang said. United States military assistance from the air as well as on the ground was considered a crucial factor in the Afghan forces’ taking back Kunduz, the first city to briefly fall to the Taliban in 14 years. The lush southern province is home to endless poppy fields and the source of much of the world’s opium, which helps fund the insurgency.
British forces saw intensive fighting there at the height of the war in 2006 and 2007.
Afghan forces are struggling to hold the police headquarters in the town of Sangin in Helmand province, amid a siege by Taliban fighters, officials say.
Atal said more than 2,000 security forces personnel had been killed fighting in Helmand in 2015.
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“It is vital that the national unity government demonstrates increasingly its effectiveness, not only to the Afghan people but also donors on whom it is largely dependent”, Nicholas Haysom said in a briefing to the UN Security Council.
