{"id":80452,"date":"2015-09-13T18:19:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T18:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/top-al-qaeda-operator-killed-in-paktika\/"},"modified":"2015-09-13T18:19:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T18:19:45","slug":"top-al-qaeda-operator-killed-in-paktika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/top-al-qaeda-operator-killed-in-paktika\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Al-Qaeda operator killed in Paktika"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHARANA\/ KABUL (SW): In collaboration with the Resolute Support (RS) forces, Afghan security forces claimed to have killed a top Al-Qaeda leader and destroyed their four bases in the south eastern Paktika province on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Directorate of Security (NDS), the al-Qaeda leader Khuram alias Qaseem, Junaid, Hassan and Khadama was killed with his seven allies in the Gomal district. The spy agency claimed it has confiscated a number of automatic rifles of small and medium category with ammunition, mines, raw material for developing bombs and communication devices.<\/p>\n<p>Paktika borders restive South Waziristan agency that remained a hub of al-Qaeda and Taliban militants for years.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the Afghan Air Force (AAF) has eliminated nine Taliban militants in southern Helmand&rsquo;s restive Musa Qala district on Monday. Brig. Mohammad Rasul Zazai, spokesman for the 215-Maiwand Corps told SW joint operation by the AAF and ground forces also confiscated huge cache of arms from the rebels.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said today, a total of 12 rebels were killed in Laghman, Kandahar, Khost, Paktiya, Farah and Helmand provinces.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHARANA\/ KABUL (SW): In collaboration with the Resolute Support (RS) forces, Afghan security forces claimed to have killed a top Al-Qaeda leader and destroyed their four bases in the south eastern Paktika province on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-80452","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\/80452","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=80452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}