American soldier killed by a member of the Afghan security forces
American soldier killed by a member of the Afghan security forces
A US service member was killed and another wounded in Afghanistan on Saturday when a member of the government's security forces opened fire at a base in the capital, the US military, Kabul, said.
The name of the dead soldier was not disclosed, pending notification to his family, the US military said in a statement. The wounded soldier was transferred for medical treatment to the Bagram airfield, a US military base 35 miles north of Kabul, he said.
The assailant was shot and killed by Afghan security forces while fleeing, said Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman Sayed Javid Ghafoor, adding that the attack occurred at an army training base in the capital.
The American fatality raised to at least nine the number of US servicemen who died this year in Afghanistan, according to an account by iCasualties.org. Afghan security officials say deaths among Afghan soldiers and police are reaching more than 30 a day.
The reason for Saturday's attack was not clear, and no group was immediately responsible for it. However, the Taliban praised the assault and said it was conducted by a "sensitive" Afghan. They also urged other government forces to carry out similar assaults.
The apparent internal attack was the third assault in two weeks. Some 14,000 US military personnel are deployed in Afghanistan, and most of them are assigned to the advisory and assistance mission of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization led by the United States.
On October 18, a guard for the governor of the southern Kandahar province shot dead General Abdul Raziq, The powerful anti-Taliban police chief of the province, after a meeting in the provincial capital with military officers from the United States.
US Army General Scott Miller, commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, escaped unharmed. Army Brigade General Jeffrey Smiley, who oversees NATO's train assistance and advisory mission in southern Afghanistan, received at least one bullet wound.
Four days later a Czech soldier was killed by a member of the Afghan security forces and two other NATO members were wounded on October 22 when a commander of the Afghan security forces opened fire on a military base in the western province of Herat.
Since those attacks, the US military has reduced face-to-face contacts between US military personnel and Afghan security forces. Contacts have continued through telephone and email, and some meetings were held in facilities run by the United States, US officials said.
Some 557 Afghan security forces and 157 NATO members, including members of the US service, were killed in 102 internal attacks documented since 2007, according to a study published last year by the Modern War Institute in West Point.
According to a report by a control agency of the United States government, internal attacks peaked in 2012, when police or Afghan soldiers killed 62 NATO soldiers, including 35 Americans.
Write to Craig Nelson in craig.nelson@wsj.com
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