{"id":25073,"date":"2019-05-16T15:03:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T07:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=25073"},"modified":"2019-05-16T15:08:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T07:08:37","slug":"six-militants-including-key-taliban-commander-killed-in-n-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=25073","title":{"rendered":"Six Militants, Including Key Taliban Commander Killed In N. Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL, Afghanistan, May 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; Up to six militants, including a key Taliban commander, have been killed, following an anti-terrorism operation in Afghanistan&#8217;s northern province of Balkh, the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs said today (Thursday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among those killed was Mullah Shader, a most-wanted Taliban commander in Balkh, the statement said, without mentioning the exact time of the operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A Taliban outfit member named Mohammad Sarwar was arrested and eight villages were cleared of the militants during the raid,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The targeted terrorist group was involved in organising and conducting several terrorist attacks in Balkh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The relatively peaceful province has been the scene of clashes between security forces and the Taliban since early this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The security forces also destroyed a militant&#8217;s vehicle and three motorcycles, according to the statement.&#8211; NNN-AGENCIES <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL, Afghanistan, May 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; Up to six militants, including a key Taliban commander, have been killed, following an anti-terrorism operation in Afghanistan&#8217;s northern province of Balkh, the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs said today (Thursday). Among those killed was Mullah Shader, a most-wanted Taliban commander in Balkh, the statement said, without mentioning the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25073"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}