{"id":59100,"date":"2019-04-14T10:49:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T10:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=59100"},"modified":"2019-04-14T10:49:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T10:49:34","slug":"taliban-ambush-afghan-police-convoy-killing-7-security-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/taliban-ambush-afghan-police-convoy-killing-7-security-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban ambush Afghan police convoy, killing 7 security forces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kabul<br>The  Taliban ambushed a police convoy in western Afghanistan, killing seven  security forces, an official said on Saturday.Abdul Hai Khateby, the  spokesman for the governor of the western Ghor province, said the attack  on Friday afternoon set off an hours-long gunbattle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Faqir Ahmad\n Noori, the head of operations for the provincial police, was among \nthose killed. Another two policemen and a civilian were wounded, and at \nleast four insurgents were killed, Khateby said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The insurgents \nattacked a district headquarters in the eastern Nangarhar province late \nFriday, killing two police, said Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the \nprovincial governor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The attack began with two suicide car bombs \ntargeting checkpoints. Khogyani said eight police were wounded and \nseveral Taliban fighters were killed in hours of fighting.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KabulThe Taliban ambushed a police convoy in western Afghanistan, killing seven security forces, an official said on Saturday.Abdul Hai Khateby, the spokesman for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59100","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\/59100","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=59100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59102,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59100\/revisions\/59102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}