{"id":54062,"date":"2019-02-02T12:18:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T12:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=54062"},"modified":"2019-02-02T12:18:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T12:18:36","slug":"afghan-official-taliban-hit-army-checkpoint-kill-6-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/afghan-official-taliban-hit-army-checkpoint-kill-6-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan official Taliban hit army checkpoint, kill 6 troops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kabul<br>\nAn Afghan official says the Taliban have attacked an army checkpoint in one of the country\u2019s northern provinces, killing at least six soldiers.Zabihullah Amani, the provincial governor\u2019s spokesman, says seven soldiers were also wounded in the attack on Thursday night in Sozma Qala district in Sari Pul province.Amani says nine Taliban fighters were killed and 13 were wounded in a gun battle that followed the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that reinforcements were dispatched to the area and that it is now under control of Afghan forces.The Taliban didn\u2019t immediately say they were behind the attack but the insurgents have been carrying out near-daily attacks on Afghan forces.<\/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>Kabul An Afghan official says the Taliban have attacked an army checkpoint in one of the country\u2019s northern provinces, killing at least six soldiers.Zabihullah Amani, the provincial governor\u2019s spokesman, says seven soldiers were also wounded in the attack on Thursday night in Sozma Qala district in Sari Pul province.Amani says nine Taliban fighters were killed [&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":54063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54062","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\/54062","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=54062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54064,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54062\/revisions\/54064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}