{"id":85277,"date":"2017-07-26T04:07:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T04:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/taliban-attacks-wantwaygal-district-of-nuristan\/"},"modified":"2017-07-26T04:07:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T04:07:56","slug":"taliban-attacks-wantwaygal-district-of-nuristan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/taliban-attacks-wantwaygal-district-of-nuristan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban attacks Wantwaygal district of Nuristan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2017\/July\/26\/norestan.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PARUN (SW): Local authorities in Nuristan province report Taliban attack on different parts of Wantwaygal district on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to the authorities, the at least 25000 Taliban insurgents who have gathered from other districts of Nuristan, have attacked Wantwaygal district of the province.<\/p>\n<p>Rahmatullah Rahmati, the chief of Wantwaygal district, in a conversation with Salam Watandar, said that fresh troops have arrived and pushed back the Taliban attack, but the clash is still on going. &ldquo;30 Taliban insurgents are killed and some are injured. While 1 soldier lost his life and 5 more are injured in this clash&rdquo;, informed Rahmati.<\/p>\n<p>Some residents of the district also told Salam Watandar that a group Taliban insurgents launched the attack in the morning. The locals added that the Taliban wanted to blow up a bridge which connects the district to Kunar province in order to besiege the district, but the group was faced by the security forces.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban has not commented on the matter to media yet.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARUN (SW): Local authorities in Nuristan province report Taliban attack on different parts of Wantwaygal district on Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-85277","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\/85277","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=85277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}