An American military officer has been killed and two others wounded in southern Afghanistan in a suspected case of insider attack, the US-led Resolute Support Mission (RSM) has announced.
The apparent so-called green-on-blue or insider attack was carried out Saturday in Uruzgan province by a member of the Afghan security force that reportedly acted alone, according to an RSM statement and local news outlets.
The injured soldiers are reported to the be in stable condition by the NATO military training mission led by US Commander Gen. John Nicholson Jr. However, the fate of the assailant was not immediately clear.
The identity of the victims were withheld pending the notification of their relatives, according to RSM, which is purportedly an “advice and assist mission” consisting of more than 13,000 troops, mostly from the US and NATO countries.
A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yosuf Ahmadi, also confirmed the incident in a media statement, saying…