{"id":778,"date":"2010-09-21T09:19:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T09:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=778"},"modified":"2010-09-21T09:19:19","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T09:19:19","slug":"9-us-led-troops-killed-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/09\/21\/778\/","title":{"rendered":"9 US-led troops killed in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"helicopter\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/helicopter.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"187\" \/>At least nine US-led troops have lost their lives in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, NATO&#8217;s International Security Assistance Force says.<br \/>&#8220;The cause of the crash is under investigation,&#8221; a NATO statement said on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;There are no reports of enemy fire in the area,&#8221; the statement added.<br \/>Four other people, including two US-led soldiers, an Afghan trooper and a US civilian, were also wounded in the incident, AFP reported.<br \/>According to the statement, the wounded people were transferred to a military clinic for medical treatment.<br \/>NATO did not reveal the nationality of the casualties.<br \/>Tuesday&#8217;s deaths bring to 529 the number of foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan so far this year, setting a new record in the nine-year-old military intervention. US-led troop fatalities in the war-torn country in 2009 stood at 521.<br \/>The rising casualties of foreign forces in Afghanistan have sparked growing opposition to the Afghan war in member states of the NATO military alliance, including the US and Britain.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Press TV<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least nine US-led troops have lost their lives in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, NATO&#8217;s International Security Assistance Force says.&#8220;The cause of the crash is under investigation,&#8221; a NATO statement said on Tuesday.<\/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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>9 US-led troops killed in Afghanistan - SunniOnline<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/09\/21\/778\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"9 US-led troops killed in Afghanistan - SunniOnline\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At least nine US-led troops have lost their lives in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, NATO&#8217;s International Security Assistance Force says.&#8220;The cause of the crash is under investigation,&#8221; 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