The United Nations confirmed Thursday an attack on its convoy in Afghanistan killed at least five members of the local security force escorting it.The U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said its staff and vehicles were unhurt in the incident.The convoy was traveling in the morning through the Surobi district, 60 kilometers east of the Afghan capital, Kabul, when unknown gunmen ambushed it.UNAMA said the attack hit a vehicle of Afghan security personnel escorting the convoy. Afghan sources confirmed the assault occurred on the main highway linking Kabul to eastern Nangarhar province, saying the Afghan security vehicle careened off the road and plunged into a river after the driver was shot.”The U.N. family in Afghanistan mourns the loss of five Afghan Directorate of Protection Service personnel in an incident today in Surobi District of Kabul,” UNAMA wrote Thursday on Twitter. 
 My thoughts and prayers are with families of officers who died offering protection our staff, as they do on so many days. The UN has expressed its deepest condolences to Govt of Afghanistan 🇦🇫 in official NV. Violence in FILE – U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, left, and Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban group’s top political leader, sign a peace agreement between Taliban and U.S. officials in Doha, Qatar, Feb. 29, 2020.The new U.S. administration says it is examining whether the insurgents have lived up to their commitments to help end the 19-year-old war.The United States has reduced the number of troops in Afghanistan to 2,500 since signing the agreement, but the level of violence remains high, and the Taliban is largely blamed for this.The February 29 pact requires all American and allied forces to leave the country by May 1.Early indications from the Biden administration are that the Taliban has failed to reduce violence, cut ties with terrorist groups or make progress in peace talks with the Afghan government.The Taliban has rejected the allegations and cautioned Washington against changing mutually agreed timelines in the agreement, saying it “will lead to a dangerous escalation” in the Afghan war. 
 
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