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This could be because it launched early, our rights have expired, there was a legal issue, or for another reason. An Afghan soldier has killed three US contractors and wounded a fourth at Kabul’s military airport, an Afghan air force official said.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on Thursday saying a militant infiltrator had carried it out.
For further information, please contact: The Afghan air force official said it was not clear why the attacker had killed the advisers.
“No one else was there to tell us the reason,” the official said.
“An investigation has been opened.”
The international force in Afghanistan confirmed the shooting took place on Thursday evening. It also confirmed that one Afghan had been killed but it did not say whether he was the attacker.
A rise in so-called insider attacks in Afghanistan has eroded trust between government forces and their international allies in the final years of the combat mission that ended in 2014, prompting foreign forces to scale back interaction with Afghans.
Despite the introduction of new measures, including a requirement that coalition forces be armed at all times and stricter vetting procedures for Afghan security members, incidents continue to occur sporadically.
One of the worst attacks took place last August, killing US Major General Harold Greene, who became the most senior American military official to die in action overseas since the war in Vietnam.
The new international Resolute Support mission involving a small contingent of about 12,000 mostly US troops started on 1 January and is to focus on training Afghanistan’s national security force.