SHOOTOUT THAT TOOK PLACE IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE COUNTRY.
COURTNEY KUBE HAS THE
LATE-BREAKING DETAILS.
>> Reporter: TONIGHT
FOUR U.S. MILITARY
OFFICIALS TELLING NBC
NEWS THAT MULTIPLE
U.S. TROOPS HAVE BEEN
KILLED AND WOUNDED IN
EASTERN AFGHANISTAN.
A U.S. MILITARY
SPOKESPERSON IN KABUL
RELEASING THIS
STATEMENT.
"A COMBINED U.S. AND
AFGHAN FORCE
CONDUCTING AN
OPERATION IN NANGARHAR
PROVINCE WAS ENGAGED
BY DIRECT FIRE ON
FEBRUARY 8.
WE ARE ASSESSING THE
SITUATION AND WILL
PROVIDE FURTHER
UPDATES AS THEY BECOME
AVAILABLE."
BOTH THE TALIBAN AND
ISIS OPERATE IN
NANGAHAR PROVINCE,
WHICH SITS ALONG THE
BORDER WITH PAKISTAN.
THIS ATTACK COMES AS
THE U.S. TRIES TO END
THE NEARLY
TWO-DECADE-LONG WAR IN
AFGHANISTAN.
AT HIS STATE OF THE
UNION ADDRESS LAST
WEEK PRESIDENT TRUMP
SAID PEACE TALKS ARE
UNDER WAY.
>> WE ARE WORKING TO
FINALLY END AMERICA’S
LONGEST WAR AND BRING
OUR TROOPS BACK HOME.
>> Reporter: THERE ARE
NEARLY 13,000 U.S.
TROOPS DEPLOYED TO
AFGHANISTAN.
BUT MILITARY LEADERS
HAVE SAID THEY CAN
DECREASE TO 8,600
WITHOUT IMPACTING
COUNTERTERROR
OPERATIONS.
COUNTERTERROR OPERATIONS. LAST YEAR 22 AMERICAN
SERVICE MEMBERS WERE
KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN.
FOUR U.S. SERVICE
MEMBERS HAVE DIED
ALREADY IN 2020, NOT
INCLUDING TODAY’S
ATTACK.
>> AND KOURTNEY JOINS
US NOW.
COURTNEY, YOU SAID
THIS WAS A JOINT
OPERATION.
WERE THERE ANY AFGHAN
CASUALTIES?
>> Reporter: U.S.
OFFICIALS SAY THERE
WERE AFGHAN CASUALTIES
BUT RIGHT NOW WE JUST