{"id":81912,"date":"2016-05-08T08:59:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T08:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/taliban-in-fighting-leaves-30-dead-in-helmand\/"},"modified":"2016-05-08T08:59:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T08:59:40","slug":"taliban-in-fighting-leaves-30-dead-in-helmand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/taliban-in-fighting-leaves-30-dead-in-helmand\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban in-fighting leaves 30 dead in Helmand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/5 May\/8 May\/helmand.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LASHKARGAH (SW):&nbsp; Nearly 30 militants have been killed as a result of in-fighting between Mullah Rasul&rsquo;s fighters and Mullah Mansoor&rsquo;s in Nawa district in southern province Helmand.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad Shah Salem, the Police Chief in the district, told Salam Watandar that the in-fighting between the Taliban insurgents flared up on Saturday morning when the fighters associated to Mullah Rasul captured a village in Nawa district.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police chief, the fighting is no longer intense but the sound of intermittent gunshots are still being heard.<\/p>\n<p>A number of residents in the province, told Salam Watandar that Mullah Rasul&rsquo;s fighters have managed to successfully push Mullah Mansoor&rsquo;s fighters out of Trikh Nawar area in the district.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/5 May\/8 May\/hilmand-nawa.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to them, as many as 500 Taliban fighters have pledged allegiance to Mullah Rasul and have urged upon other Taliban fighters to follow their orders.<\/p>\n<p>The fighters linked to Mullah Mansoor&rsquo;s group, who are led by Abdullah Saber, claimed that they have inflicted heavy casualties on Mullah Mansoor&rsquo;s fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Mullah Mansoor&rsquo;s fighters yet to comment in&nbsp;this regard.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 30 militants have been killed as a result of in-fighting between Mullah Rasul\u2019s fighters and Mullah Mansoor\u2019s in Nawa district in southern province Helmand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-81912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81912","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=81912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}