US soldiers killed after man in Afghan army uniform opens fire

Deaths come at a sensitive time in 18-year war, with Trump eager to bring troops home and end the US’s longest conflict.

Two US soldiers have been killed and six others wounded when an individual in an Afghan army uniform opened fire on them with a machinegun in eastern Afghanistan, the US military said.

The incident, which took place in Nangarhar province, occurred after a combined US and Afghan force completed a “key-leader engagement” at a base in Sherzad district, Colonel Sonny Leggett, a spokesman for US forces in Afghanistan, said in a statement on Saturday.

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