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KABUL, Afghanistan — American and Afghan troops have abandoned an outpost in eastern Afghanistan where U.S. forces earlier this week suffered their largest single-incident loss of life in three years, a NATO spokesman said Wednesday.
Nine American soldiers were killed and 15 others were wounded Sunday when insurgents breached the perimeter defenses of the small, newly constructed forward base near the village of Wanat, close to the Pakistani border.
American troops manning the forward base that was attacked were under the command of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force. North Atlantic Treaty Organization spokesman Mark Laity confirmed that it had been abandoned.
