{"id":1092,"date":"2026-02-23T16:32:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:32:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:32:47","slug":"six-us-soldiers-killed-in-afghanistan-suicide-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/?p=1092","title":{"rendered":"Six US soldiers killed in Afghanistan suicide attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In the deadliest attack on foreign troops since August, six US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Monday when a suicide attacker rammed an explosives-laden motorcycle into a joint NATO-Afghan patrol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The soldiers were targeted as they moved through a village near Bagram Airfield, the largest US military facility in Afghanistan, NATO and Afghan officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A US official confirmed that all NATO troops killed were American. Two wounded were also US soldiers and the other was Afghan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In New York, Police Commissioner William Bratton said on Monday that a New York City police detective, Joseph Lemm, was one of the six Americans killed in the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lemm was a 15-year veteran of the New York Police Department and worked in the Bronx Warrant Squad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bratton says Lemm served in the US National Guard and, while a member of the police force, he had been deployed twice to Afghanistan and once to Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He leaves behind a wife and three children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blasts rock Kabul<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later on Monday, a rocket attack barrage rocked the capital Kabul with at least three loud explosions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two rockets landed near Kabul\u2019s diplomatic district, a police source told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A third rocket hit an area near Kabul airport, the source added. No casualties have so far been reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe will continue to target foreign forces until they leave our country [Afghanistan],\u201d Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesperson, told Al Jazeera. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The violence comes as a southern district in Helmand province fell to the Taliban after days of heavy fighting, officials told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Taliban has stepped up attacks and has made territorial gains since NATO forces reduced troop levels and handed over security responsibilities to the Afghan National Army a year ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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