{"id":7713,"date":"2017-10-15T11:29:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T11:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=7713"},"modified":"2017-10-15T11:29:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T11:29:59","slug":"us-drone-strike-kills-14-is-militants-afghan-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/us-drone-strike-kills-14-is-militants-afghan-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"US drone strike kills 14 IS militants: Afghan officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kabul<br \/>\nAfghan officials say a US drone strike has killed 14 Islamic State militants in a remote area in Afghanistan\u2019s eastern Kunar province.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Ghani Musamim, spokesman for the provincial governor, said on Saturday that the strike took place on Thursday afternoon in the<\/p>\n<p>Chawkay district.<\/p>\n<p>He says it targeted a meeting of IS commanders planning for a terrorist attack. The government has no control of the remote area where<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan\u2019s IS affiliate has managed to establish a presence.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman for the Ministry of Defence, Dawlat Waziri, also confirmed the report.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate comment from the U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>However, lawmaker Shazada Shaheed rejected the report, claiming the victims of the strike were civilians.<\/p>\n<p>The IS affiliate has grown in Afghanistan over the last few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kabul Afghan officials say a US drone strike has killed 14 Islamic State militants in a remote area in Afghanistan\u2019s eastern Kunar province. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7713","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\/7713","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=7713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7715,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7713\/revisions\/7715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}