{"id":5691,"date":"2021-08-07T08:55:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T08:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=5691"},"modified":"2021-08-07T08:55:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T08:55:29","slug":"taliban-overrun-main-prison-in-sheberghan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/08\/taliban-overrun-main-prison-in-sheberghan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban overrun main prison in Sheberghan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SHEBERGHAN (SW) \u2013 The Taliban have captured the main prison in Sheberghan, capital of Jawzjan province, and have freed up to 1,000 inmates, sources said on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the source, fierce clashes were underway at the NDS facility in the city as raging violence forced hundreds of families to flee.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the Taliban also staged attacks from several directions at Faiz Abad in Badakhshan and Kunduz city in Kunduz province.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"elementor-post__title\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/07\/17\/drought-and-insecurity-causes-grim-concerns-in-jawzjan\/\">Drought and insecurity causes grim concerns in Jawzjan<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"elementor-post__title\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/06\/23\/women-in-jawzjan-taken-up-arms-against-the-taliban\/\">Women in Jawzjan take up arms against the Taliban<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A security source told Salam Watandar that in these clashes, at least 35 Taliban were killed and 20 others were injured, including many commanders of this group.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad Bashir Samim, Badakhshan governor, said that the Taliban attacks were repulsed and the security forces were in action to further push back the insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defense has said that in the last 24 hours, 385 Taliban were killed and 210 others were wounded.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHEBERGHAN (SW) \u2013 The Taliban have captured the main prison in Sheberghan, capital of Jawzjan province, and have freed up to 1,000 inmates, sources said on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,5,8,4,6,7],"tags":[635,12,13,262],"class_list":["post-5691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-peace","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-sheberghan","tag-afghanistan","tag-taliban","tag-jawzjan"],"views":554,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}