{"id":12021,"date":"2019-09-23T16:12:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T16:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/09\/23\/three-us-service-members-wounded-in-afghanistan-insider-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:23:07","slug":"three-us-service-members-wounded-in-afghanistan-insider-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/09\/23\/three-us-service-members-wounded-in-afghanistan-insider-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Three US service members wounded in Afghanistan insider attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2019\/09\/04\/diplomacy-with-the-taliban-is-the-only-solution-in-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Taliban<\/a> took credit for killing three troops in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2019\/07\/31\/army-identifies-two-soldiers-killed-in-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\">green-on-blue attack<\/a> Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Monday afternoon, but an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2019\/09\/11\/remembering-why-we-are-at-war-in-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Forces-Afghanistan <\/a>spokesman fired back at the claims on Twitter, clarifying that the only injuries sustained were non-life threatening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A defense official, who was not authorized to speak on the record, confirmed that all three wounded troops were Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A member of the Afghan National Civil Order Police fired on a coalition convoy, Col. Sonny Leggett tweeted, without providing details about which coalition country they belonged to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe attacker was killed by return fire from Resolute Support forces,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The incident is under investigation, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2019\/07\/02\/awards-meted-out-for-fighting-through-insider-attack-on-high-level-meeting-in-afghanistan\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4654756.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">6 soldiers given awards for actions during insider attack on high-level meeting in Afghanistan<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The soldiers played a crucial role in the events on Oct. 18, 2018, in Kandahar City.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The attack came two months after another reported insider attack, which killed two 82nd Airborne Division soldiers in Uruzgan province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To date, the U.S. has lost 17 service members in Afghanistan this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">More lies and false claims by the Taliban. 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