{"id":90765,"date":"2019-05-25T06:49:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T06:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/khalid-talibans-spring-offensives-successfully-repelled\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:10:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:10:21","slug":"khalid-talibans-spring-offensives-successfully-repelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/khalid-talibans-spring-offensives-successfully-repelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalid: Taliban\u2019s spring offensives successfully repelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/May\/25\/\u0627\u0633\u062f\u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647-\u062e\u0627\u0644\u062f-1 - Copy 1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; Interim-minister for defense, Assadullah Khalid, vowed on Saturday the Taliban&rsquo;s spring offensives have been successfully repelled.<\/p>\n<p>He said this addressing the ceremony organized to see new commander of the Special Forces take charge here. He said the Taliban have failed with their &lsquo;al-Fath&rsquo; annual offensives, and have not been allowed to advance. Khalid said the insurgents&rsquo; attacks have been repulsed across the country.<\/p>\n<p>However, defense analyst Jawed Kohistani told Salam Watandar the minister&rsquo;s remarks are not entirely true. He said the Taliban as well as the security forces have sustained heavy losses in the ongoing clashes across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Kohistani said the insurgents continue to hold control over areas they have been holding so far.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as the Taliban managed to stage at least two deadly attacks on police in the capital Kabul this month alone.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 Interim-minister for defense, Assadullah Khalid, vowed on Saturday the Taliban\u2019s spring offensives have been successfully repelled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-90765","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\/90765","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=90765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}