{"id":80200,"date":"2015-08-15T20:37:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T20:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/militants-full-blown-assault-thwarted-in-farah\/"},"modified":"2015-08-15T20:37:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T20:37:19","slug":"militants-full-blown-assault-thwarted-in-farah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/militants-full-blown-assault-thwarted-in-farah\/","title":{"rendered":"Militants\u2019 full-blown assault thwarted in Farah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FARAH CITY (SW): Government forces on Sunday thwarted a full-blown militant attack in the south western Farah city.<\/p>\n<p>Officials associated with the Afghan National Army&rsquo;s (ANA) 207<sup>th<\/sup> Corpse said more than 700 armed militants attacked Pustht-e- Rood in Balabluk district last evening. Officials said the fighting continued till the middle of the night.<\/p>\n<p>Gen.Taj Mohammad Jahed, Commander of 207<sup>th<\/sup> Corpse said that the fighting left 6 militants dead and 16 more injured. According to Jahed, 4 police officers got killed and a few more security forces were injured.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Taliban wished to block the Farah highway and inflict heavier damage. Gen. Jahed said the militants had gathered from all districts to conduct a sudden attack but were given tough time by the vigilant armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, security officials in northern Badghis province have said since Vice President Gen. Abdul Rasheed Dostum has taken command of the clearance operation in Faryaab, many militants have fled to Badghis.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARAH CITY (SW): Government forces on Sunday thwarted a full-blown militant attack in the south western Farah city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-80200","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\/80200","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=80200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}