{"id":3687,"date":"2014-06-11T06:03:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T06:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3687"},"modified":"2014-06-11T06:03:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T06:03:34","slug":"five-u-s-troops-killed-in-afghan-friendly-fire-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/06\/11\/3687\/","title":{"rendered":"Five U.S. troops killed in Afghan friendly-fire incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/afghanistan-nato-forces.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>Five U.S. servicemen were killed in southern Afghanistan in a friendly-fire air strike during a security operation, Afghan police said on Tuesday, days before a run-off round in the country&#8217;s presidential election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the casualties occurred on Monday when the unit came into contact with enemy forces. It did not give the nationality of the dead soldiers.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Local police chief Ghulam Sakhi Roghlewanai said of the incident in Zabul province&#8217;s Arghandab district: &#8220;The five killed were American soldiers who just returned from an operation when they were hit.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;ISAF troops were returning to their bases after an operation when they were ambushed by the insurgents. The air strike mistakenly hit their own forces and killed the soldiers.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, said fighters had been attacking the foreign forces when the helicopters intervened and accidentally killed their own troops.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">An ISAF statement said an investigation was under way into &#8220;the possibility that fratricide may have been involved&#8221;.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Taliban, meanhwhile, kidnapped 35 professors from Kandahar University after stopping their van on the highway linking the southern province and Kabul, a spokesman for provincial governor said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The professors were on their way to the capital when they were abducted and tribal elders are now involved in negotiating with the Taliban,&#8221; Dawa Khan Minapal said by telephone.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Security is being ramped up in Afghanistan ahead of Saturday&#8217;s run-off vote to replace President Hamid Karzai.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The poll pits Abdullah Abdullah, a former leader of the opposition to the Taliban, against former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<em><strong> World Bulletin<\/strong> <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five U.S. servicemen were killed in southern Afghanistan in a friendly-fire air strike during a security operation, Afghan police said on Tuesday, days before a run-off round in the country&#8217;s presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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