{"id":84314,"date":"2017-03-16T08:40:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T08:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/modern-technology-used-against-militants-in-helmand\/"},"modified":"2017-03-16T08:40:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T08:40:27","slug":"modern-technology-used-against-militants-in-helmand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/modern-technology-used-against-militants-in-helmand\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern technology used against militants in Helmand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"307\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2017\/march\/16\/laser_weapon_UAV.jpg\" width=\"460\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LASHKARGAH (SW): Security officials have said successful military operation with the help of modern technology against the militants is underway in Helmand province.<\/p>\n<p>Gen. Abdul Hadi, deputy commander of the Afghan National Army (ANA)&rsquo;s 215-Maiwand Corps, told journalist on Thursday that the offensives against the militants in Naad-e-Ali district are going ahead successfully. Some six days ago, the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANSDF) launched these offensives in a bid to retake turf lost to the militants in the district. On Thursday, the officials said road link between the center of Naad-e-Ali and provincial capital Lashkargah has been established.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy commander of the 215-Maiwand Corps said modern technology has been used in a bid to avoid civilian casualties. He said &lsquo;Scangun Drones&rsquo; have been used for this purpose. Gen. Hadi claimed up to 128 militants have been killed in this operation so far. He said the security forces have sustained no casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Raheem, deputy commander of the Afghan National Police (ANP)&rsquo;s 505-Bost Zone, said on the occasion a large number of policemen are taking part in these offensives. Hayatullah Hayat, provincial governor, said many militants including top militant commanders have been killed in this operation.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have not commented about these claims made by the officials.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LASHKARGAH (SW): Security officials have said successful military operation with the help of modern technology against the militants is underway in Helmand province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-84314","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\/84314","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=84314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}