KABUL – A US service member was killed and another was injured in an “apparent insider attack” in Afghanistan on Saturday.
Operation Resolute Support, in a statement, said it is investigating the incident, which is suspected of being carried out by a member of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces.
It said initial reports indicate other Afghan Forces killed the attacker. Both US service members were evacuated from the scene to Bagram Airfield.
An investigation into the incident was underway, the statement said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the third so-called “green-on-blue” attack in less than three weeks.
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The Taliban claimed two similar attacks in the western province of Herat on October 22 and the southern province of Kandahar on October 18. General Scott Miller, the top NATO and US commander in Afghanistan, narrowly escaped the latter attack that killed a powerful police chief.
Currently, there are about 14,000 US troops in Afghanistan, providing the main component of the Resolute Support mission to support and train local forces.
More than 2,000 American soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since the start of the war in 2001.
