{"id":82622,"date":"2016-08-01T09:59:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T09:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/taliban-breeding-ground-comes-under-attack-in-ghazni\/"},"modified":"2016-08-01T09:59:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T09:59:24","slug":"taliban-breeding-ground-comes-under-attack-in-ghazni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/taliban-breeding-ground-comes-under-attack-in-ghazni\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban breeding ground comes under attack in Ghazni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/8 August\/1 Aug\/amarkhil.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GHAZNI CITY (SW): Security officials in central province Ghazni have said that the&nbsp;militants have suffered heavy casualties in Gilan district during an Afghan airstrike.<\/p>\n<p>Aminullah Amarkheyl, police chief in the province, told Salam Watandar that the Afghan air forces targeted a Taliban training center in Gilan district on Monday inflicting heavy casualties upon the militants.<\/p>\n<p>He said that 60 militants have been killed and 10 more have been wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the center served as a hub for the militants and was run by a Pakistani colonel Kamran and his deputy who were also killed in the airstrike. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/8 August\/1 Aug\/Taliban.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He added that during the clashes between the militants and security forces in Andar district, 21 militants have been killed and 25 more have been wounded.<\/p>\n<p>He further said that the insurgents came&nbsp;from Paktia, Paktika, Khost and Logar provinces in a bid to capture Andar district in the province but their attempts were foiled and counter attacked by the security forces.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban have not commented on the incident so far but did claim that they have inflicted casualties upon Afghan security forces.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security officials in central province Ghazni have said that the militants have suffered heavy casualties in Gilan district during an Afghan airstrike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-82622","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\/82622","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=82622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}