{"id":82374,"date":"2016-07-02T07:02:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T07:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/district-on-the-brink-of-falling-to-the-militants-in-baghlan\/"},"modified":"2016-07-02T07:02:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T07:02:50","slug":"district-on-the-brink-of-falling-to-the-militants-in-baghlan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/district-on-the-brink-of-falling-to-the-militants-in-baghlan\/","title":{"rendered":"District on the brink of falling to the militants in Baghlan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/7 July\/2 Jul\/baghlan.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PUL-I-KHUMRI (SW): The Taliban attacked Tala Barfak district in northern Baghlan province on Friday evening that lasted for several hours.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials have said that the district has 30 security personnel, which are not enough and if the militants mounted another attack, they would easily overrun the district.<\/p>\n<p>Faiz Mohammad Amiri, the district chief in Tala Barfak, told Salam Watandar that 4 militants were killed in the fighting and 7 more were injured.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the fighting has stopped but if the militants attacked again, the district would fall to the militants due to the lack of security personnel stationed there.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Satar Barez, governor of Baghlan, has said that they would not allow the district to fall to the insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the security forces are not alone and nearly 200 local uprising forces stand by them to fight against the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>Noor Habib Gulbahari, the police chief in the province, said that the security in the district is directly related to the residents&rsquo; cooperation with the security forces.<\/p>\n<p>The militants conducted an offensive five months ago in a bid to capture the district, which they succeeded and ruled the district for 20 days but were finally expelled after the security forces launched an operation.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban attacked Tala Barfak district in northern Baghlan province on Friday evening that lasted for several hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-82374","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\/82374","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=82374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}