Taliban confirms they shot down US plane in Afghanistan

October 02, 2015 20:52

The Taliban claimed Friday to have shot down a US military transport plane in eastern Afghanistan in a crash that killed 11 people, as the battle for Kunduz raged after the emboldened militants briefly seized the city.The Taliban's stunning success in Kunduz, their biggest tactical success since 2001, marks a blow for Afghanistan's NATO-trained forces, which have largely been fighting on their own since December.NATO has not yet confirmed the cause of Friday's crash. The Taliban regularly claim to have shot down military aircraft."Our mujahideen have shot down a four-engine US aircraft in Jalalabad,'' Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Twitter.

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