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Afghan Troops Clash With Taliban to Access U.S. Plane Crash Site
- Taliban assert that ‘high-ranking CIA officials were killed’
- ‘No indications the crash was caused by enemy fire’: U.S.
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Afghan troops have clashed with Taliban fighters as they tried to reach the crash site of a U.S. military aircraft that went down in eastern Afghanistan on Monday.
The militant group claimed it had downed a “special American aircraft” on an intelligence mission, while the U.S. military said Monday there was no indication the plane was hit by hostile fire.