{"id":84704,"date":"2017-05-05T08:01:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T08:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/taliban-attack-kunduz-takhar-highway-and-qala-e-zaal-district\/"},"modified":"2017-05-05T08:01:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T08:01:51","slug":"taliban-attack-kunduz-takhar-highway-and-qala-e-zaal-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/taliban-attack-kunduz-takhar-highway-and-qala-e-zaal-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban attack Kunduz-Takhar highway and Qala-e-Zaal district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2017\/May\/5\/kondoz.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KUNDUZ CITY (SW): Taliban insurgents have attacked the main Kunduz-Takhar highway and the main bazar of Qala Zaal district in the early hours of Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Assadullah Sadat, member Kunduz&rsquo;s provincial council, told Salam Watandar that at late Tuesday night Taliban insurgents entered the Aaq Tapa village, at the center of Qala-e-Zaal district and attacked in the early hours of Friday morning on the security outposts. &ldquo;Intense fight is still going on between security forces and the Taliban&rdquo;, informed Sadat.<\/p>\n<p>He further added that the security forces are backed by air-force, but if re-enforcements are not sent; the security forces will lose their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Mahfozullah Akbari, spokesman for northwest police zone, said the situation is under control. &ldquo;Fighting is going on in differently places of the district&rdquo;, informed Abari. He added that the Taliban insurgents opened fire in the early hours of Friday on the security forces stationed for the security of Kunduz-Takhar highway. He also informed that the highway is closed for traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman for the northwest police zone did not give information on the number of casualties, but the Taliban in a statement have claimed that 8 security officers are dead.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUNDUZ CITY (SW): Taliban insurgents have attacked the main Kunduz-Takhar highway and the main bazar of Qala Zaal district in the early hours of Friday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-84704","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\/84704","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=84704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}