US serviceman among 44 killed in Friday’s Kabul terror wave

A US military official confirmed that a US service member and eight Afghan contractors were killed in an attack on NATO’s Resolute Support mission on Camp Integrity in Kabul Friday – on one of the worst days of violence in the Afghan capital. It claimed 44 dead. A number of other NATO service members and foreign contracted civilians were among the hundreds wounded in the wave of attacks claimed by the Taliban. It included a suicide bombing on a police academy in Kabul and a truck bomb explosion that flattened a city block.