Another US soldier killed in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON: An American special forces soldier was killed in Afghanistan on Monday, according to US defence department officials, a little more than a week after President Donald Trump called off peace negotiations with the Taliban.
The soldier, who was killed while fighting alongside Afghan commandos in Wardak province, is the 17th US service member to die during combat operations this year, the highest number of losses in a year since 2014, when the Pentagon announced the end of combat operations in Afghanistan. The US-led mission in Afghanistan provided little detail of the episode and withheld the soldier’s name pending next of kin notification. Earlier this month, 12 people were killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul. Trump cited the death of a US soldier in the attack as one of the reasons he called off talks with the Taliban.