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enhanced_deficit
09-04-2018, 10:59 PM
While at home media attacks Trump for playing golf during Mccain funeral, the longest US war goes on:



Another US service member dies in Afghanistan — the second in two days

Ryan Pickrell

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Just one day after an apparent insider attack killed a US service member in Afghanistan, another American service member died in an incident in the eastern part of the country.

A US service member died in a non-combat incident in Afghanistan Tuesday, marking the second American death in two days in the war-torn country.
The incident is currently under investigation, according to an Operation Resolute Support press statement that was decidedly short on details. The fallen's name will be released 24 hours after the individual's next of kin have been notified.
Tuesday's death in eastern Afghanistan comes just one day after another US service member was killed in an apparent insider attack, the circumstances of which still remain unclear.

https://www.businessinsider.com/another-us-service-member-dies-in-afghanistan-the-second-in-two-days-2018-9






(http://www.foxnews.com/category/world/conflicts/afghanistan.html)
2 hours ago

Afghan policeman launched attack that killed American soldier, US official says

Associated Press


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The attack killed Command Sgt. Maj. Timothy A. Bolyard, the Pentagon said.


An attack on U.S. troops in Afghanistan that killed one American was carried out by a member of the Afghan national police who is now in Afghan government custody, a U.S. official said Tuesday. It was the second so-called insider attack there this summer.
Lt. Col. Martin O'Donnell, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in Kabul, said in a telephone interview Tuesday that the American was killed in eastern Afghanistan by an Afghan policeman. Another U.S. service member was wounded; O'Donnell said that person's wounds are not life-threatening.
On Tuesday evening the Pentagon said the soldier killed was Army Command Sgt. Maj. Timothy A. Bolyard, 42, of Thornton, West Virginia. It said he died of wounds sustained from small arms fire in Logar Province, but it provided no other details about the incident.
Bolyard was assigned to 3rd Squadron, 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade, based at Fort Benning, Georgia. His brigade was sent to Afghanistan early this year as part of a revamped American strategy to bolster the Afghan security forces by placing U.S. military advisers with Afghan troops closer to the front lines.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/09/04/afghan-policeman-launched-attack-that-killed-american-soldier-us-official-says.html

enhanced_deficit
09-15-2018, 02:27 PM
Afghan official: Military chopper catches fire, killing 4



By Associated Press



September 15 at 4:32 AM
KABUL, Afghanistan — At least five army personnel, all crew members of a military helicopter, were killed late Friday when their aircraft crashed and caught fire in western Afghanistan.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/afghan-official-military-chopper-catches-fire-killing-4/2018/09/15/ea5e340e-b8a4-11e8-ae4f-2c1439c96d79_story.html



Afghanistan could surpass Syria as deadliest conflict this year, analysts claim (http://www.euronews.com/2018/09/14/afghanistan-could-surpass-syria-as-deadliest-conflict-this-year-analysts-claim)By Emma Beswick with AFP• last updated: 14/09/2018

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Afghanistan's drawn-out conflict could be deadlier in 2018 than the war in Syria, experts have warned.

Despite the violence in Afghanistan seemingly appearing less frequently in the media, 17 years after the US-led invasion, the country's conflict could prove the deadliest in the world this year in terms of fatalities.
The total number of deaths in Afghanistan's conflict has risen significantly year-on-year since 2013 and was listed at 19,694 in 2017, according to the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) figures (http://ucdp.uu.se/#country/700).