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Tehran 9 February _American and Afghan forces partaking in a reported joint operation are said to have come under “direct attack” in Afghanistan’s flashpoint eastern province of Nangarhar.@
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club(YJC)_The attack took place in the province’s Shirzad district military headquarters on Saturday, AFP reported. The agency, citing local media, described the incident as an “insider attack.”
"A combined US and Afghan force conducting an operation in Nangarhar Province was engaged by direct fire on Feb. 8," said Colonel Sonny Leggett, a spokesman for US forces in Afghanistan. "We are assessing the situation and will provide further updates as they become available," he added.
There have been no reports of casualties yet, but an Afghan official said, "Several helicopters landed in and departed from the HQ compound taking out casualties.”
No group or individual has yet claimed responsibility for the reported attack.
The province has been playing host to activity by the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group over the past several years.
The group emerged in Iraq and Syria in 2014, but was defeated by the countries and their allies around three years later.
It began showing up in Afghanistan towards the end of its maximal presence in those countries, and has been trying to expand its turf in the Central Asian country since the 2017 defeat.
Over the past years, various reports and regional officials have warned about underway attempts by the US to relocate Daesh’s defeated elements to Afghanistan.
Washington and scores of its allies launched an operation in Iraq and Syria after the group started its campaign of bloodshed and destruction there under the pretext of uprooting it. The US-led coalition has sustained a presence in the countries despite the end of Daesh’s reign of terror.
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