{"id":85353,"date":"2017-08-05T04:54:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T04:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/u-s-army-re-establishes-base-in-maidan-wardak\/"},"modified":"2017-08-05T04:54:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T04:54:23","slug":"u-s-army-re-establishes-base-in-maidan-wardak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/u-s-army-re-establishes-base-in-maidan-wardak\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. army re-establishes base in Maidan Wardak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2017\/August\/5\/Maidan Wardak 1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MAIDAN CITY (SW): United States military has re-established the base in Nirkh district of Maidan Wardak province which was previously vacated in former president Hamid Karzai&rsquo;s tenure by the U.S. army.<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities and residents have said that American military has re-established a small base for an unknown period of time in Nirkh district.<\/p>\n<p>Naqibullah Amini, the spokesman for the provincial governor, told Salam Watandar that the U.S. army has re-established the base to bring security to the area. &ldquo;In an American led military operation 7 insurgents were killed on Friday night in the area&rdquo;, added Amini.<\/p>\n<p>A security source who wished to remain anonymous told Salam Watandar that the U.S. base will station 45 American soldiers to help Afghan security forces.<\/p>\n<p>Local residents opposing the return of American military to the area said that in 2013 the U.S. soldiers had killed and tortured residents in Karim Daud area of the district.<\/p>\n<p>Local village dwellers have concerns over the presence of U.S. military in the area as they claim that civilian causalities will be higher than insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAIDAN CITY (SW): United States military has re-established the base in Nirkh district of Maidan Wardak province which was previously vacated in former president Hamid Karzai\u2019s tenure by the U.S. army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-85353","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\/85353","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=85353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}