KABUL – Two Americans were killed and another two were injured when a gunman opened fire on a base used by foreign troops in the Afghan capital, the NATO-led coalition and Afghan officials said Wednesday.
One U.S. service member and one U.S. civilian were killed in the attack, which the Afghan Defense Ministry said was carried out by a man in an Afghan army uniform.
Such green-on-blue attacks have killed scores of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Taliban insurgents often assert responsibility for the shootings.
“Anytime we lose a member of our team, it is deeply painful,” Gen. John Nicholson, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said in a statement Wednesday.
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