Eight US troops and a civilian contractor have been killed in a deadly shooting in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
The shooting took place at Kabul Airport. The incident involved an Afghan Air Force pilot.
A Pentagon spokesman said: "The current information we have from ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) is that eight service members and one civilian were killed in the attack - all US."
It is one of the deadliest incidents of "rogue" Afghans turning their weapons on foreign soldiers
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