Taliban fighters attacked a U.S. military outpost in the Afghan province of Nangarhar on Monday, less than a week after targeting a Polish base in a nearby province.In an email Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said, "In a parking lot used by Americans there was a huge blast and after that a massive attack... A number of our heroes are fighting."
The base itself had not been penetrated. Provincial spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai said no casualties had been reported.
The attack prompted police to close part of a highway between the provincial capital and Torkham district near the border with Pakistan.