US Transport Plane Crashes,The U.S. C-130 aggressive carriage even that comatose in eastern Afghanistan on Friday and asleep six American soldiers and 5 others was attempt down, said the Taliban in a affirmation agitated by Agence France-Presse.
"Our mujahideen accept attempt down a four-engine US aircraft in Jalalabad," Taliban agent Zabihullah Mujahid said on Twitter. "Based on aboveboard advice 15 advancing armament and a amount of boob troops were killed."
NATO has not yet accepted the could cause of Friday's crash, said AFP, and the Taliban consistently affirmation to accept attempt down aggressive aircraft.
U.S. Above Tony Wickman told AFP: "With a top amount of aplomb I can say that an adversary advance did not accord to the crash. It is beneath investigation."
U.S. Army Col. Brian Tribus said the crash, which occurred at about midnight bounded time abreast the huge abject at Jalalabad, larboard six U.S. soldiers and 5 noncombatant contractors dead.
The contractors had been alive for "Resolute Support", the NATO-led training mission.
Jalalabad is anchored on a key avenue from the Pakistani bound arena – area abounding militants are based – to Kabul, and it has been the arena of again attacks in contempo years.
Its airport is home to a above aggressive base, and has appear beneath advance on several antecedent occasions.
In December 2012, Taliban suicide bombers asleep at atomic 5 humans in an hours-long action at the airport, the third advance on it that year.
The C-130 Hercules is a burden even acclimated abundantly by the aggressive to address troops and abundant gear. It can yield off and acreage on rough, clay strips and is broadly acclimated by the U.S. aggressive in adverse areas.
The Taliban affirmation came as Amnesty International accursed the insurgents' "reign of terror" in Kunduz, which fell to the militants 5 canicule ago in a lightning strike.
The Taliban's beauteous success in Kunduz, their better appropriate success back 2001, marks a draft for Afghanistan's NATO-trained forces, who accept abundantly been angry on their own back December.
A bound account has emerged of altitude in the city-limits afterward affirmation and acknowledge by the Afghan government and the Taliban over who was in control.
However, association told AFP angry gun battles and explosions were still alveolate in locations of Kunduz backward Thursday, and the streets were blowzy with Taliban bodies and broiled and burst vehicles.
Journalists including an AFP columnist were arrive to biking with Afghan troops into the centre of Kunduz on Thursday, but afterwards a continued delay at a abject abreast the city-limits they were told they had to acknowledgment to Kabul.
Amnesty International cited noncombatant testimonies of accumulation murder, assemblage rapes and house-to-house searches by active afterlife squads.
The report, which cited rights activists, claimed militants had a "hit list" and were application adolescent boys to advice conduct house-to-house searches to clue down their targets, abnormally women.
Soldiers came beneath desultory attacks from insurgents cutting Afghan aegis uniforms, abounding of whom took up positions central residential homes.
Precise losses in the angry are not accepted but so far at atomic 49 bodies and added than 370 blood-soaked humans accept been brought to the city-limits hospitals, according to bloom officials.
The blood-soaked included 64 children, medical alms Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said, abacus that its agony centre in Kunduz has been operating "beyond capacity".
Most NATO action troops pulled out of Afghanistan endure year but a baby accidental focused on training and counter-terrorism operations remains, including almost 10,000 American soldiers.
The abatement of Kunduz showcased the adamant insurgency's abeyant to aggrandize above its rural strongholds in the south of the country.
Concerns are now ascent that the Taliban's success in Kunduz, even if temporary, was alone the aperture artifice in a new, bolder strategy.
It is aswell apparent as a game-changer for the awkward active movement that has been adamant by a administration crisis back the advertisement in July of architect Mullah Omar's death.
Analysts saw it as a addition for new Taliban arch Mullah Mansour, whose contempo arrangement has been balked by in-fighting and whose organisation has afresh been challenged by factions loyal to the Islamic State group.
The renewed activity of the Taliban abhorrent has aswell debilitated abutment for President Ashraf Ghani, who has just apparent a year in office, and aloft questions about Washington's plan to abjure a lot of US troops from Afghanistan next year.
"Our mujahideen accept attempt down a four-engine US aircraft in Jalalabad," Taliban agent Zabihullah Mujahid said on Twitter. "Based on aboveboard advice 15 advancing armament and a amount of boob troops were killed."
NATO has not yet accepted the could cause of Friday's crash, said AFP, and the Taliban consistently affirmation to accept attempt down aggressive aircraft.
U.S. Above Tony Wickman told AFP: "With a top amount of aplomb I can say that an adversary advance did not accord to the crash. It is beneath investigation."
U.S. Army Col. Brian Tribus said the crash, which occurred at about midnight bounded time abreast the huge abject at Jalalabad, larboard six U.S. soldiers and 5 noncombatant contractors dead.
The contractors had been alive for "Resolute Support", the NATO-led training mission.
Jalalabad is anchored on a key avenue from the Pakistani bound arena – area abounding militants are based – to Kabul, and it has been the arena of again attacks in contempo years.
Its airport is home to a above aggressive base, and has appear beneath advance on several antecedent occasions.
In December 2012, Taliban suicide bombers asleep at atomic 5 humans in an hours-long action at the airport, the third advance on it that year.
The C-130 Hercules is a burden even acclimated abundantly by the aggressive to address troops and abundant gear. It can yield off and acreage on rough, clay strips and is broadly acclimated by the U.S. aggressive in adverse areas.
The Taliban affirmation came as Amnesty International accursed the insurgents' "reign of terror" in Kunduz, which fell to the militants 5 canicule ago in a lightning strike.
The Taliban's beauteous success in Kunduz, their better appropriate success back 2001, marks a draft for Afghanistan's NATO-trained forces, who accept abundantly been angry on their own back December.
A bound account has emerged of altitude in the city-limits afterward affirmation and acknowledge by the Afghan government and the Taliban over who was in control.
However, association told AFP angry gun battles and explosions were still alveolate in locations of Kunduz backward Thursday, and the streets were blowzy with Taliban bodies and broiled and burst vehicles.
Journalists including an AFP columnist were arrive to biking with Afghan troops into the centre of Kunduz on Thursday, but afterwards a continued delay at a abject abreast the city-limits they were told they had to acknowledgment to Kabul.
Amnesty International cited noncombatant testimonies of accumulation murder, assemblage rapes and house-to-house searches by active afterlife squads.
The report, which cited rights activists, claimed militants had a "hit list" and were application adolescent boys to advice conduct house-to-house searches to clue down their targets, abnormally women.
Soldiers came beneath desultory attacks from insurgents cutting Afghan aegis uniforms, abounding of whom took up positions central residential homes.
Precise losses in the angry are not accepted but so far at atomic 49 bodies and added than 370 blood-soaked humans accept been brought to the city-limits hospitals, according to bloom officials.
The blood-soaked included 64 children, medical alms Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said, abacus that its agony centre in Kunduz has been operating "beyond capacity".
Most NATO action troops pulled out of Afghanistan endure year but a baby accidental focused on training and counter-terrorism operations remains, including almost 10,000 American soldiers.
The abatement of Kunduz showcased the adamant insurgency's abeyant to aggrandize above its rural strongholds in the south of the country.
Concerns are now ascent that the Taliban's success in Kunduz, even if temporary, was alone the aperture artifice in a new, bolder strategy.
It is aswell apparent as a game-changer for the awkward active movement that has been adamant by a administration crisis back the advertisement in July of architect Mullah Omar's death.
Analysts saw it as a addition for new Taliban arch Mullah Mansour, whose contempo arrangement has been balked by in-fighting and whose organisation has afresh been challenged by factions loyal to the Islamic State group.
The renewed activity of the Taliban abhorrent has aswell debilitated abutment for President Ashraf Ghani, who has just apparent a year in office, and aloft questions about Washington's plan to abjure a lot of US troops from Afghanistan next year.
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