{"id":82506,"date":"2016-07-18T09:51:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T09:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/taliban-insurgents-intensify-their-offensives-in-kunduz\/"},"modified":"2016-07-18T09:51:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T09:51:04","slug":"taliban-insurgents-intensify-their-offensives-in-kunduz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/taliban-insurgents-intensify-their-offensives-in-kunduz\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban insurgents intensify their offensives in Kunduz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"391\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/7 July\/18 Jul\/konduz.jpg\" width=\"690\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KUNDUZ CITY (SW): Security officials in northern province Kunduz said that the militants conducted their offensives in a bid to capture Qala-e-Zaal district on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Sayed Agha, a security official in the district, said that the militants have overrun parts of the district&rsquo;s center. He said that six Taliban insurgents have been killed so far and one of their top commanders Mullah Mansoor has been injured.<\/p>\n<p>Asadullah Sadat, a member of Kunduz Provincial council, however claimed that the Taliban have fully captured the district.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"408\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/7 July\/18 Jul\/konduz 2.jpg\" width=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He said that the militants started their offensives in a bid to capture the district from various directions and managed to capture the center of the district today.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the fighting left four security forces personnel dead.<\/p>\n<p>Security officials in the district, however said that only one man from the local uprising forces was killed during the fighting.<\/p>\n<p>They said that reinforcement troops have been deployed to the area and assured that the district center would soon be recaptured.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security officials in northern province Kunduz said that the militants conducted their offensives in a bid to capture Qala-e-Zaal district on Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-82506","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\/82506","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=82506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}