U.S. soldiers take cover while receiving small arms fire from insurgents after leaving their compound to be air assaulted out of the Khogyani district of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, March 31, 2013, and back to Combat Outpost Connolly. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jon Heinrich
Afghanistan: Challenges Of Security Handover -- Caroline Wyatt, BBC
As the war in Afghanistan fades from the front pages in the West as fewer international troops die, the human cost of the conflict is increasingly being borne by Afghan forces.
On Friday, the Taliban attacked and killed at least 13 Afghan soldiers in the Naray district of Kunar, an area near the border with Pakistan long contested and used by insurgents and foreign fighters as a transit route.
The insurgents attacked just before dawn.
It was yet another test of Afghan national security forces as Nato steps back from its front-line role, ahead of the withdrawal of coalition combat troops by the end of 2014.
The soldiers killed were in what was deemed to be one of the most effective Afghan fighting units.
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