{"id":79274,"date":"2018-10-18T07:47:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T07:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/gen-raziq-assassinated-taliban-take-responsibility\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:58:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:58:21","slug":"gen-raziq-assassinated-taliban-take-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/gen-raziq-assassinated-taliban-take-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen. Raziq assassinated, Taliban take responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"394\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/October\/18\/Raziq.jpg\" width=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The top US commander in Afghanistan, Gen Austin Scott Miller, and local Afghan officials came under armed assault in southern Kandahar province on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Aziz Ahmad Aziz, spokesman for the provincial governor, told Salam Watandar unknown attackers shot fires after a security meeting in Kandahar city.<\/p>\n<p>According to credible security sources, Gen. Abdul Raziq, the provincial police chief,&nbsp; got killed in the attack.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Col. Knut Peters, a Resolute Support spokesman, has said initial reports indicate this was an Afghan-on-Afghan incident. &quot;Two Americans were wounded in the cross-fire and they have been medically evacuated.&nbsp;General Miller is uninjured. We are being told the area is secure. Initial reports also say the attacker is dead&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Developing story&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The top US commander in Afghanistan, Gen Austin Scott Miller, and local Afghan officials came under armed assault in southern Kandahar province on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-79274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}