{"id":83784,"date":"2017-01-15T08:29:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T08:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/scores-of-taliban-militants-killed-in-helmand\/"},"modified":"2017-01-15T08:29:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T08:29:19","slug":"scores-of-taliban-militants-killed-in-helmand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/scores-of-taliban-militants-killed-in-helmand\/","title":{"rendered":"Scores of Taliban militants killed in Helmand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2017\/jan\/15\/Taliban 2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LASHKARGAH (SW): In a cleansing operation, at least 25 Taliban rebels including 4 Pakistani militants have been killed in Helmand province<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Rahim Chaghansori, Commander of the Afghan National Police (ANP)&rsquo;s &nbsp;505 zone, told Salam Watandar allied forces have targeted Taliban&rsquo;s hideouts in Musa Qala district. He said a number of Taliban fighters, including at least four Pakistani militants were killed in this attack. He noted the Taliban were conducting a large meeting in the main Bazar of the district when they were hit. According to the zone 505 commander, high-ranking militants have been killed in this attack. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Among those killed in this offensive include a number of Taliban&rsquo;s shadow district chiefs and operation commanders.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Rahim Chaghansori confirmed 15 more militants were injured including 2 &lsquo;ISI agents&rsquo;. A large cache of arms and ammunition has also been destroyed in this attack, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban have not commented in this regard so far.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LASHKARGAH (SW): In a cleansing operation, at least 25 Taliban rebels including 4 Pakistani militants have been killed in Helmand province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-83784","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\/83784","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=83784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}