U.S. soldier killed in insider attack in Afghanistan

U.S. Army soldiers from NATO are seen through a cracked window of an armed vehicle in a checkpoint in Afghanistan.

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published 3 November 2018

One American soldier was killed and another injured when an Afghan commando shot them in Kabul on Saturday. The identities of the victims have not been released, and an investigation is ongoing.

"Initial reports indicate [Saturday's] attacker was a member of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces," said NATO representative Debra Richardson from Kabul. "The attacker was immediately killed by other Afghan forces."

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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