Six US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on this past Monday

21 Dec 2015 18:11 GMT
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Six US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Monday when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked their patrol, a US official said.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the US official told Reuters news agency that all six NATO troops killed in the attack near Bagram Airfield were American.
It is the deadliest attack on foreign troops since August.
Earlier on Monday, Brig Gen Wilson Shoffner, head of public affairs at NATO's Resolute Support base in the Afghan capital Kabul, said in a statement that six members of its Resolute Support mission were killed and three others were wounded in the attack near Bagram, the largest US military facility in Afghanistan.

Notice the power the bomb carried by motorcycle had on the heavily armored vehicle.
Six more dead and at least two more injured in the continuing struggle to occupy and control Afghanistan.

And in other news coming out of Afghanistan there's this.

21 Dec 2015 16:42 GMT
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Fierce fight for Helmand as Afghan Taliban gains ground
District falls to Taliban a day after Helmand's deputy governor warned president of losing the key province.
Sangin fell to the Taliban after hours of fierce clashes that killed more than 90 soldiers in two days, an Afghan police spokesperson told Al Jazeera, with the Taliban taking over police and military installations.
The Taliban also confirmed the siege to Al Jazeera.