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Pentagon Confirms Death of US Servicemen in Eastern Afghanistan

© AFP 2023 / Romeo GacadIn this photo taken on August 5, 2011, US troops from the Charlie Company, 2-87 Infantry, 3d Brigade Combat Team under Afghanistan's International Security Assistance Force patrols Kandalay village following Taliban attacks on a joint US and Afghan National Army checkpoint protecting the western area of Kandalay village.
In this photo taken on August 5, 2011, US troops from the Charlie Company, 2-87 Infantry, 3d Brigade Combat Team under Afghanistan's International Security Assistance Force patrols Kandalay village following Taliban attacks on a joint US and Afghan National Army checkpoint protecting the western area of Kandalay village. - Sputnik International
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According to reports, US Department of Defense confirmed that two military members died and one was injured fighting Daesh-Khorasan.

In this photo taken on August 5, 2011, US troops from the Charlie Company, 2-87 Infantry, 3d Brigade Combat Team under Afghanistan's International Security Assistance Force patrols Kandalay village following Taliban attacks on a joint US and Afghan National Army checkpoint protecting the western area of Kandalay village. - Sputnik International
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) The US Department of Defense confirmed that two military members died and one was injured fighting Daesh-Khorasan, the local affiliate of the terror group (banned in Russia) in Afghanistan on Thursday.

"Two US service members were killed in action and a third was wounded in action on Wednesday evening when they came under attack during a raid against insurgents in Nangarhar Province," US Forces Afghanistan said in a statement.

The servicemen were participating in a counterterrorism operation along with Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, according to the Defense Department.

On April 13, US military dropped the 22,000-pound GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb in the same area of Nangarhar province targeting a tunnel complex used by the Islamic State’s local affiliate.

The MOAB, dubbed the "Mother of All Bombs," is the largest non-nuclear bomb developed by the United States and had not been used in combat before the Nangarhar operation.

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