NANGARHAR: At least seven US soldiers were killed in Nangarhar province ofAfghanistan last year and it proved to be the deadliest area for US forcesin the world.
US forces and warplanes conducted hundreds of strikes and ground operationin the Nangarhar province and it is one of the few places Americans havebeen routinely accompanying Afghan forces into battle.
Last year 21 soldiers were killed battling in different parts of the worldincluding Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and Niger and seven ofthem were killed in Nangarhar province last year and in the current year USmilitary sustained its first death of the new year during operation inAchin district of Nangarhar.
There are around 14,000 US troops in the country this year, up from 11,000through much of 2017.