{"id":12938,"date":"2020-02-09T13:58:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T08:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=12938"},"modified":"2020-02-09T13:58:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T08:58:53","slug":"two-us-soldiers-killed-in-eastern-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/12938","title":{"rendered":"Two US soldiers killed in eastern Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of U.S. and Afghan forces have sustained casualties in an apparent so-called green-on-blue attack late Saturday<\/p>\n<p>Col. Sonny Leggett, spokesman for U.S. forces in Afghanistan, confirmed the incident in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>A combined U.S. and Afghan force conducting an operation in Nangarhar province was engaged by direct fire on Feb. 8, he said, adding casualties were suffered in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>We are assessing the situation and will provide further updates as they become available. The so-called green-on-blue-attack means attacker\/s, wearing Afghan forces&#8217; uniform, attack foreign\/American troops.<\/p>\n<p>The NATO forces in Afghanistan last month confirmed two U.S. service members got killed in the plane that \u201ccrashed\u201d in Ghazni province.<\/p>\n<p>This came as Taliban insurgents on Jan. 27 claimed to hit down the plane, allegedly belonging to the CIA.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on Jan. 11, at least two U.S. service members killed and two others wounded when their military convoy vehicle struck an improvised explosive device in restive southern Kandahar province, the NATO&#8217;s Resolute Support mission statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, according to non-classified figures by the NATO mission, at least 20 U.S. soldiers got killed in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of U.S. and Afghan forces have sustained casualties in an apparent so-called green-on-blue attack late Saturday Col. Sonny Leggett, spokesman for U.S. forces in Afghanistan, confirmed the incident in a statement. A combined U.S. and Afghan force conducting an operation in Nangarhar province was engaged by direct fire on Feb. 8, he said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12940,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12938\/revisions\/12940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}