{"id":84840,"date":"2017-05-21T06:43:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T06:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/20-policemen-killed-as-taliban-storm-outposts\/"},"modified":"2017-05-21T06:43:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T06:43:29","slug":"20-policemen-killed-as-taliban-storm-outposts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/20-policemen-killed-as-taliban-storm-outposts\/","title":{"rendered":"20 policemen killed as Taliban storm outposts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"491\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2017\/May\/21\/Afghan-police.jpg\" width=\"780\" \/><\/p>\n<p>QALAT CITY (SW): Up to 20 Afghan National Police (ANP) men have been killed in Taliban&rsquo;s coordinated attacks on their outposts in southern Zabul province.<\/p>\n<p>Bismillah Afghan Mal, governor for the province told Salam Watandar fresh forces have been sent to the area to counter the militants. &ldquo;The Taliban launched coordinated attacks on security check posts in the Shah Joey and Dai Chopan districts on the main Kandahar-Qalat highway, 20 policemen have died and more than 10 are wounded.&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have also fired up to 10 rockets on the central Qalat city, he informed.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghan Ministry of Defence (MoD) in its daily security round-up claimed on Sunday up to 121 insurgents including 2 Daesh affiliates were killed and 41 others wounded in ongoing operations in 18 out of 34 provinces in the past 24 hours. &ldquo;The Afghan National Army as nation&rsquo;s defence forces, are ready to make sacrifice to ensure peace and security for people and has strong determination to eliminate terror groups&rdquo;, it added.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QALAT CITY (SW): Up to 20 Afghan National Police (ANP) men have been killed in Taliban\u2019s coordinated attacks on their outposts in southern Zabul province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-84840","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\/84840","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=84840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}