As U.S. intelligence agencies investigate whether a car bomb that killed 3 Marines in Afghanistan last year was detonated at the behest of a Russian military agency, family and friends of the Marines say it’s like experiencing their grief a second time nyti.ms/3gZTTYA
The debate over Russian bounties has brought the deaths of Staff Sgt. Christopher Slutman, 43, Sgt. Robert A. Hendriks, 25, and Staff Sgt. Benjamin Hines, 31, to the forefront of American consciousness after 18 years of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. nyti.ms/3gZTTYA 
The 3 Marines, all reservists, were killed on patrol on April 8, 2019, just 2 weeks before they were scheduled to go home — and while the U.S. was negotiating a peace deal with the Taliban. nyti.ms/3gZTTYA
The U.S. mission in Afghanistan has changed many times over, but Americans are still fighting, and they are still dying.The 3 Marines were among 22 Americans who died in 2019 in their country’s longest war. nyti.ms/3gZTTYA
If the intelligence that Russia offered bounties for the deaths of the 3 Marines is true, it would be a staggering repudiation of President Trump’s embrace of President Vladimir Putin. Read more from @helenecooper, @jestei, @Tmgneff, and @EricSchmittNYT: nyti.ms/3gZTTYA
