{"id":91252,"date":"2019-08-06T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T07:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/40-killed-as-taliban-engage-in-internal-clashes\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:15:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:15:54","slug":"40-killed-as-taliban-engage-in-internal-clashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/40-killed-as-taliban-engage-in-internal-clashes\/","title":{"rendered":"40 killed as Taliban engage in internal clashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/Aug\/6\/taliban 9.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>HERAT CITY (SW) &ndash; The provincial governor&rsquo;s spokesman in Herat has said deadly clashes between two factions of the Taliban killed at least 40 people on both sides here.<\/p>\n<p>Jailani Farhad said a breakaway faction of the Taliban led by Mulla Manan Niazi engaged in deadly clashed with the main faction led by Mulla Hebatullah in the Guzara district.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the provincial council Wakeel Ahmad said that 32 fighters of the Mullah Manan Niazi faction while eight fighters of Mulla Hebatullah got killed in exchange of fire here.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Taliban claimed to have killed over 30 &lsquo;pro-government militia fighters&rsquo; in the restive Guzara district after overrunning a security base camp.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HERAT CITY (SW) \u2013 The provincial governor\u2019s spokesman in Herat has said deadly clashes between two factions of the Taliban killed at least 40 people on both sides here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-91252","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\/91252","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=91252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}