US and Romanian service members killed in Afghanistan, NATO Resolute Support says
 

US and Romanian service members killed in Afghanistan, NATO Resolute Support says
BY: Joanne Stocker - The Defense Post - 9-5-19
RE: https://thedefensepost.com/2019/09/0...olute-support/

Two members of NATO’s Afghanistan mission were killed in the capital Kabul on Thursday, September 5, Resolute Support said.

One service member was Romanian and the other was from the United States, the mission said without providing further details.

Earlier on Thursday the Taliban admitted it was behind a deadly car bomb in Kabul that killed at least 10 people and wounded over 40 others. Tolo News reported that the two service members were also killed in the blast.

The American is the 16th U.S. service member killed in Afghanistan this year.

On August 29, U.S. Army Special Forces soldier Sergeant 1st Class Dustin B. Ard was killed during combat operations in Afghanistan’s southern Zabul province. Two U.S. Special Forces soldiers were killed in combat operations in Faryab province just days earlier on August 21, and three American forces were killed in Uruzgan and Faryab provinces in July.

Also in July a Croatian soldier serving with Resolute Support NATO Afghanistan was killed and two others seriously wounded in a Taliban suicide attack in Kabul.

There were no official details Thursday about the deaths of the American and Romanian service members and the Romanian defense ministry did not immediately reply to a request for comment. There are currently over 700 Romanians serving with Resolute Support across Afghanistan.

Violence in the capital and across Afghanistan has flared up in recent weeks even as the U.S. is leading an effort to try to forge a peace deal with the Taliban after nearly 18 years of war.