KABUL: Eight U.S. service members were killed in coordinated attacks on two outposts in a remote area of eastern Afghanistan, military officials said Sunday.The attacks in Nuristan province, which took place Saturday, also killed two Afghan soldiers, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said in a statement.
A spokeswoman for U.S. forces, Capt. Elizabeth Mathias, confirmed that all the Western fatalities were Americans. The deaths marked the largest single losses of American lives in months in a single engagement.
Many remote outposts like the ones that were hit in this assault by what NATO described as "tribal militia" are due to be shut down under a new strategy put forth by U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of all Western troops in Afghanistan.
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