{"id":94495,"date":"2020-04-22T06:50:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T06:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/taliban-attack-aynak-copper-mines-in-logar\/"},"modified":"2020-04-22T06:50:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T06:50:22","slug":"taliban-attack-aynak-copper-mines-in-logar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/taliban-attack-aynak-copper-mines-in-logar\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban attack Aynak Copper mines in Logar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/pictures\/fileman\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/april\/22\/Afghanistan-Taliban-Kandahar-Banaras-Khan-Getty-Original.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PUL-I-ALAM (SW) &ndash; A security source in Logar province has said that dozens of Taliban fighters attacked the third security checkpoint of the Aynak Copper mine last night causing casualties among the security forces.<\/p>\n<p>The source, who did not want to be named, told Salam Watandar that the Taliban had killed eight police officers at the Aynak copper mine and seized a checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have not yet commented.<\/p>\n<p>Aynak Copper Mine is located in the Aynak area of \u200b\u200bMohammad Agha district of Logar province. It is the largest copper mine in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban also attacked a security base in Charkh district of the province last week, killing nine army soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUL-I-ALAM (SW) \u2013 A security source in Logar province has said that dozens of Taliban fighters attacked the third security checkpoint of the Aynak Copper mine last night causing casualties among the security forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-94495","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\/94495","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=94495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}