{"id":81146,"date":"2015-12-29T13:55:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T13:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/kunduz-to-be-totally-cleared-of-the-taliban\/"},"modified":"2015-12-29T13:55:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T13:55:53","slug":"kunduz-to-be-totally-cleared-of-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/kunduz-to-be-totally-cleared-of-the-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cKunduz to be totally cleared of the Taliban\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KUNDUZ CITY (SW): Military commanders in the northern Kunduz province has said a wide scale&nbsp;mop-up operation to fully clear Kunduz of the militants is underway.<\/p>\n<p>Shir Aziz Kamawal, Commander of &nbsp;808 Spinzar Corps, speaking to journalists on Tuesday&nbsp;said that the winter season provide a golden opportunity for the security forces to expel the militants from Kunduz and its outskirts.&nbsp;He said that clearing Kunduz of the Taliban, would put an end to the rumors that the Taliban would again attack on Kunduz.<\/p>\n<p>He further said that currently 2,400 militants who have gained equipment following the three-day collapse of the city, have been fighting with the security forces on several fronts.<\/p>\n<p>Ghulam Mahiuddin Ghori, Commander of Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in the north, who was also speaking alongside Kamawal&nbsp;said the mop-up operation would soon destroy all the equipments that the Taliban use to fight against security forces.&nbsp;The mop-up operation will be conducted soon because some residents have been concerned about the return of the militants to the province.<\/p>\n<p>Currently the Taliban are only present in the outskirts of the provinces where they fight security forces at times.&nbsp;Taliban captured Kunduz for three days a few months back and it took two weeks for security forces to recapture the province.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military commanders in the northern Kunduz province has said a wide scale\u00a0mop-up operation to fully clear Kunduz of the militants is underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-81146","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\/81146","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=81146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}