Three US-led foreign soldiers die in eastern Afghanistan suicide attack

KABUL: A suicide bomber killed three US-led foreign troops on Sunday in eastern Afghanistan, the deadliest incident for the coalition in many months.
The US-led Resolute Support Mission in a statement said the attack took place during a combined, dismounted patrol with Afghan forces, but did not identify the nationality of the soldiers and exact location of the incident.
“Another Resolute Support service member, which US Forces-Afghanistan acknowledged was an American, and two Afghan National Army soldiers were also injured in the blast,” General John Nicholson said in a statement.
“Their sacrifice will endure in both our hearts and history, and further strengthen our resolve” US top military commander in Afghanistan, he added. 
A spokesman for the Taliban militants said the group conducted a “tactical blast” against American troops in Parwan province which lies to the north of Kabul.
The Afghan defense ministry confirmed the blast took place in a village near the main US military base of Bagram, in Parwan province.
The attack is part of increasing violence in Afghanistan where daily dozens of national security personnel lose their lives in attacks from Taliban and
other militants.
Local officials in southern Uruzgan province said 42 Afghan army soldiers were killed early Sunday when a group of Taliban stormed their posts.
The defense ministry confirmed the incident and the casualties but did not release the exact death toll. 
The Afghan Defense Ministry spokesperson Mohammad Radmanesh said there was an ongoing battle with the Taliban in which the militants also suffered casualties. 
Meanwhile, provincial officials in northern Jowjzan said the government will prosecute any member of Daesh from among those who surrendered last week fleeing a Taliban onslaught if the residents filed a petition and provided evidence of their involvement in abusing people or killing them. 
“We can not deprive our citizens of their legal right. If people file complaints with evidence against them, the judicial system will pursue it and we will implement the law,” Mohammad Reza Ghafoori, spokesman for the governor of the province, told Arab News.
He said those not been accused of any crime by the locals will be freed.