US military death toll in Afghanistan reaches 2,000
A checkpoint shooting in eastern Afghanistan has taken the US military's death toll in the war past 2,000.
A US soldier and contractor were killed while three Afghan soldiers died and several were injured.
The new deaths occurred on Saturday in Wardak province.
Quentin Sommerville reports from Kabul.
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