{"id":51385,"date":"2019-11-20T14:27:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T06:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=51385"},"modified":"2019-11-20T14:38:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T06:38:55","slug":"two-u-s-soldiers-killed-in-helicopter-crash-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=51385","title":{"rendered":"Two U.S. Soldiers Killed In Helicopter Crash In Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL, Nov 20 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; Two U.S. soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan today (Wednesday), NATO-led Resolute Support confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The cause of the crash is under investigation however, preliminary reports do not indicate it was caused by enemy fire,&#8221; the coalition said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The brief statement did not disclose details about the deceased, only saying, &#8220;in accordance with U.S. Department of Defence policy, the names of service members killed in action are being withheld until 24 hours, after notification of the next of kin is complete.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meantime, Taliban militant group fighting Afghan government and coalition, claimed that the insurgents&#8217; fighters shot down a Chinook helicopter, in eastern Logar province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zabiullah Mujahid, a purported Taliban spokesman, said that, the U.S. chopper tried to raid militants&#8217; position in Pangram area of Charkh district of Logar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Oct, 2017, one U.S. service member was killed and six U.S. soldiers injured, after coalition helicopter crashed in Logar.&#8211; NNN-XINHUA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL, Nov 20 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; Two U.S. soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan today (Wednesday), NATO-led Resolute Support confirmed. &#8220;The cause of the crash is under investigation however, preliminary reports do not indicate it was caused by enemy fire,&#8221; the coalition said in a statement. The brief statement did not disclose details [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,215,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51385"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}