{"id":27988,"date":"2018-04-14T12:09:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T12:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=27988"},"modified":"2018-04-14T12:09:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T12:09:22","slug":"taliban-kill-10-security-forces-in-afghan-province-of-herat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/taliban-kill-10-security-forces-in-afghan-province-of-herat\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban kill 10 security forces in Afghan province of Herat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban militants attacked Afghan security posts in the western province of Herat on Thursday, killing nine soldiers and one police officer, a district governor said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The attack occurred in Herat\u2019s Shindand district, said the district\u2019s governor, Shukrullah Shaker. Four people were wounded, he said. The Taliban, seeking to restore strict Islamic rule after their 2001 defeat by U.S.-led troops, did not immediately comment.<\/p>\n<p>The attack happened just days after a blast in Shindand killed at least six people, including four children.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Thursday, Taliban militants stormed a district in Ghazni province, killing more than a dozen people including the district\u2019s governor before retreating. Fighting in Afghanistan traditionally increases in the spring when warmer weather melts snow blocking mountain passes, increasing the mobility of the insurgents.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban militants attacked Afghan security posts in the western province of Herat on Thursday, killing nine soldiers and one police officer, a district governor said on Friday. The attack occurred in Herat\u2019s Shindand district, said the district\u2019s governor, Shukrullah Shaker. Four people were wounded, he said. The Taliban, seeking to restore strict Islamic rule after [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27990,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27988\/revisions\/27990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}