CNN: U.S. Soldiers Possibly Killed by Friendly Fire in Afghanistan

‘They were working with Afghan commandos targeting the top leader of a terrorist group, which is an ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan’

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TAPPER: "We're talking about the sobering cost of combat. The Pentagon a bringing home the body of one of two army rangers killed in Afghanistan yesterday. They say they may have been struck by friendly fire. Vice president Mike Pence is in Dover, Delaware where the remains of sergeant Rogers. This was his third deployment at the age of 22. And sergeant Thomas was 23, he also enlisted after high school. They were working with Afghan commandos targeting the top leader of a terrorist group, which is an ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan. It's unclear if that terrorist leader was killed."

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