{"id":84886,"date":"2017-05-26T11:02:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T11:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/18-soldier-killed-in-taliban-attack\/"},"modified":"2017-05-26T11:02:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T11:02:14","slug":"18-soldier-killed-in-taliban-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/18-soldier-killed-in-taliban-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"18 soldier killed in Taliban attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"327\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2017\/May\/26\/Kandahar Army Attack.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KANDAHAR CITY (SW): At least 18 soldiers are reported killed in a Taliban attack in Kandahar province, an official said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A well-placed security source told Salam Watandar the Taliban attacked an Afghan National Army (ANA) base in Shah Wali Kot district.&nbsp; 18 soldiers are reported dead and 16 more wounded. Up to 30 Taliban are also reported killed and wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Three days ago, at least ten members of the ANA got killed in a Taliban attack in Arghandab district of the same province. On April 21, the Taliban stormed the headquarters of the ANA in the north, the 209-Shaheen Corps in northern Balkh province at a time when the soldiers were either having lunch of performing the Friday prayers in a mosque inside the heavily guarded compound. The hours&rsquo; long clashes left up to 150 soldiers dead<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANDAHAR CITY (SW): At least 18 soldiers are reported killed in a Taliban attack in Kandahar province, an official said on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-84886","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\/84886","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=84886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}