{"id":85305,"date":"2017-07-29T04:04:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T04:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/taliban-kills-10-afghan-special-forces-in-helmand\/"},"modified":"2017-07-29T04:04:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T04:04:47","slug":"taliban-kills-10-afghan-special-forces-in-helmand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/taliban-kills-10-afghan-special-forces-in-helmand\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban kills 10 Afghan Special Forces in Helmand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"387\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2017\/July\/29\/helmand.jpg\" width=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LASHKARGAH (SW): Taliban insurgents killed 10 Afghan Special Forces in Nawa district of Helmand on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>A security source from Helmand who requested anonymity told Salam Watandar that Taliban insurgents attacked a military outpost in Nawa district on Friday night killing 10 Afghan Special Forces and injuring 5 more. Although the source said there were 20 soldiers in the outpost, but did not provide information about the remaining soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Some local residents told Salam Watandar that the Taliban insurgents took the soldiers to Abdul Ahad area which is 700 meters from Nawa district, killing 10 Special Forces and injuring 5 while taking 5 soldiers with themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Omar Zwak, provincial governor&rsquo;s spokesman, confirmed the Taliban&rsquo;s attack on a military outpost in Nawa district,&nbsp;but he did not provide casualty details. He said that a delegation to investigate the incident has been dispatched to Nawa district.<\/p>\n<p>Salam Watandar wished to contact Taliban on the matter, but to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LASHKARGAH (SW): Taliban insurgents killed 10 Afghan Special Forces in Nawa district of Helmand on Friday night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-85305","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\/85305","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=85305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}