{"id":2574,"date":"2018-11-27T17:27:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T17:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2018-11-27T17:27:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T17:27:04","slug":"three-members-of-us-military-killed-in-afghanistan-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2018\/11\/27\/three-members-of-us-military-killed-in-afghanistan-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Three members of US military killed in Afghanistan explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"content__head content__head--article tonal__head tonal__head--tone-news\">\n<div class=\"content__headline-standfirst-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"tonal__standfirst u-cf\">\n<div class=\"content__standfirst\">\n<ul>\n<li>Improvised explosive device also injures three US troops<\/li>\n<li>US civilian contractor also wounded in blast in Ghazni<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content__meta-container js-content-meta u-cf\n    \"><\/p>\n<div class=\"meta__contact-wrap\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"meta__extras \">\n<div class=\"meta__numbers\">\n<div class=\"u-h meta__number\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure id=\"img-1\" class=\"media-primary media-content ()  \">\n<div class=\"u-responsive-ratio\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"maxed responsive-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/881b8037b2cd88c857c144edbf25f942ebfb2452\/0_209_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=300&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=56b1a27ea01c24d1a50bad14bc7f1779\" alt=\"An Afghan soldier keeps watch at a checkpoint on the Ghazni-Kabul highway in Afghanistan.\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption caption--main caption--img\"><span class=\"inline-triangle inline-icon hide-until-tablet\">\u00a0<\/span>An Afghan soldier keeps watch at a checkpoint on the Ghazni-Kabul highway. Ghazni has been one of the most heavily fought over areas of Afghanistan this year. Photograph: Mohammad Ismail\/Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"content__article-body from-content-api js-article__body\">\n<p>Three\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-military\">US military<\/a>\u00a0service members were killed and three wounded when an improvised explosive device detonated on Tuesday near the central Afghan city of Ghazni, the Nato-led Resolute Support mission said in a statement.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element--thumbnail element-rich-link--upgraded\">\n<div class=\"rich-link tone-news--item rich-link--pillar-news\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__container\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__image-container u-responsive-ratio\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/957150747b693ff492d767bb54c24c3bd393a57a\/0_69_3923_2354\/master\/3923.jpg?width=460&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3f57eb4e343744cb31f048d709b4649d\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-link__header\">\n<h1 class=\"rich-link__title\"><a class=\"rich-link__link\">Afghanistan suicide bomber kills scores of Muslim scholars<\/a><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-link__read-more\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__arrow\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-link__read-more-text\">Read more<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>A US civilian contractor was also wounded in the blast and was receiving treatment with the other wounded, the statement said, giving no further details.<\/p>\n<p>The deaths are the latest in a growing toll on US forces in\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/afghanistan\">Afghanistan<\/a>following the death of an army ranger following an operation against al-Qaida militants in Nimruz province on Saturday. Resolute Support said the soldier had been accidentally shot by a member of Afghan partner forces.<\/p>\n<p>There was no word on the circumstances of the blast on Tuesday but Ghazni has been one of the most heavily fought over areas of Afghanistan this year.<\/p>\n<p>The city was overrun by a large Taliban force earlier this year before being driven off by Afghan and US forces after days of heavy fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Arif Noori, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said an armoured vehicle carrying US troops hit a large roadside bomb in the Shahbaz area, just outside the city.<\/p>\n<p>He said US special forces had been conducting operations with Afghan forces around Ghazni city since Monday.<\/p>\n<p>At least 11 US service members have now died in Afghanistan this year, in combat or in so-called \u201cinsider attacks\u201d by Afghan soldiers or police.<\/p>\n<p>Four Czech soldiers, serving with Resolute Support, have also been killed.<\/p>\n<p>Ghazni has been one of the most heavily fought over regions of Afghanistan this year and many areas close to the city are in the hands of the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>The city, which sits on the main highway linking the capital Kabul with Kandahar in the south, was overrun this year by a large Taliban force before it was driven off by Afghan and US troops after days of heavy fighting.<\/p>\n<p>About 14,000 US troops remain in Afghanistan as part of Resolute Support and a separate counter-terrorism mission aimed against militant groups such as al-Qaida and Isis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improvised explosive device also injures three US troops US civilian contractor also wounded in blast in Ghazni \u00a0An Afghan soldier keeps watch at a checkpoint on the Ghazni-Kabul highway. Ghazni has been one of the most heavily fought over areas of Afghanistan this year. Photograph: Mohammad Ismail\/Reuters Three\u00a0US military\u00a0service members were killed and three wounded when an improvised explosive device&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2018\/11\/27\/three-members-of-us-military-killed-in-afghanistan-explosion\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/2575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}