{"id":86474,"date":"2017-11-14T03:52:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T03:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/talibans-attacks-in-kandahar-kill-22-policemen\/"},"modified":"2017-11-14T03:52:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T03:52:40","slug":"talibans-attacks-in-kandahar-kill-22-policemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/talibans-attacks-in-kandahar-kill-22-policemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban\u2019s attacks in Kandahar kill 22 policemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"379\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2017\/November\/13\/kandahar - Copy 1.jpg\" width=\"547\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KANDAHAR CITY (SW): At least 22 Afghan policemen and 45 Taliban militants got killed in Kandahar&rsquo;s Maiwand and Zheray districts.<\/p>\n<p>Matiullah Helal, deputy spokesman for the Afghan National Police (ANP) in Kandahar city, told Salam Watandar groups of armed Taliban launched coordinated attacks&nbsp;on at least 15 check posts in the province last night. He added 45 Taliban are killed and 35 are wounded, and 22 policemen got martyred while 15 others are wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The clashes erupted at around 08:00 pm last night, and continued till 02:00 Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Obaidullah Jan, district governor, has said the Taliban had gathered fighters from Uruzgan, Helmand and suburbs of Kandahar, and wished to overrun Maiwand district.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban spokesman Qari Yosuf Ahmadi has claimed in a statement that 40 security personnel have been killed in a these clashes.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANDAHAR CITY (SW): At least 22 Afghan policemen and 45 Taliban militants got killed in Kandahar\u2019s Maiwand and Zheray districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-86474","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\/86474","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=86474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}