Taliban bomber kills 6 North Atlantic Treaty Organisation troops in Af

One of the attacks, on a US special operations forces base, killed one U.S soldier and eight Afghan civilian contractors.

In Afghanistan on Monday, six American troops were killed in what the Associated Press reports is the deadliest suicide attack on global forces there since August. Two Americans and an Afghan soldier were wounded.

The police chief of Parwan province said three Afghan police had been wounded in the attack.

In the east, six U.S. soldiers were killed by a Taliban assault near Bagram on Monday.

“It is vital that the national unity government demonstrates increasingly its effectiveness, not only to the Afghan people but also donors on whom it is largely dependent”, Nicholas Haysom said in a briefing to the UN Security Council.

In a written statement, US Defense Secretary Ash Carter offered his condolences to the families of the slain American troops.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in a Twitter message.

Only Afghan army facilities in the district had not been taken by the insurgents, he said.

Helmand’s governor, Mirza Khan Rahimi, last night insisted the authorities were still in control but his own deputy said that Sangin had been overrun.

While the US military no longer carries out offensive operations in Afghanistan following the end of its formal combat mission, it patrols around the base daily to protect it against the Taliban and other enemy groups. He was married and had two children.

But spokesmen for the Afghan defense and interior ministries asserted Monday that Sangin had not fallen to the Islamist militants, although they acknowledged that fighting was taking place in many areas of Helmand. Detective Lemm was a fifteen year veteran of the NYPD and was promoted to Detective in January of 2014, serving in the Bronx Warrant Squad. Bratton says Lemm served in the U.S. National Guard and, while a member of the police force, he had been deployed twice to Afghanistan and once to Iraq. While foreign troops are involved in far fewer combat missions, they still conduct force protection patrols around North Atlantic Treaty Organisation military bases.

Helmand is where most of the world’s opium is produced, making it an important source of revenue for the Taliban.

The Taliban stormed the police headquarters, the administrative headquarters, the intelligence agency office and other offices with Afghan officials saying that their forces, including the air force, were battling to regain control.

Mir compared Helmand to Kunduz, the northern Afghan city that the Taliban took over and held for three days in September, sending shockwaves across a country that had come to believe the insurgents were not strong enough to take urban areas.

President Barack Obama in October announced that thousands of U.S. troops would remain in Afghanistan past 2016, backpedalling on previous plans to reduce the force and acknowledging that Afghan forces are not ready to stand alone.

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