{"id":45327,"date":"2019-10-07T15:20:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T07:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=45327"},"modified":"2019-10-07T15:36:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T07:36:59","slug":"three-security-forces-18-militants-killed-in-n-afghanistans-clashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=45327","title":{"rendered":"Three Security Forces, 18 Militants Killed In N. Afghanistan&#8217;s Clashes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL, Oct 7 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; Three Afghan security forces and 18 Taliban militants were killed, in fresh clashes in the country&#8217;s northern Kunduz province, Sunday night, the Afghan Interior Ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Security forces fought a tense battle with Taliban militants, after they attacked Qalay-i-Zal district, with assault rifles and machine guns,&#8221; the ministry said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The militants tried to overrun the district&#8217;s office buildings and headquarters, but security forces deployed at the district, retaliated effectively, forcing them to flee from the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eight militants were also wounded during the fighting, and those among the killed militants was a local Taliban divisional commander named Quraishi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The province has been the scene of heavy clashes between Taliban and security forces for a long time.&#8211; NNN-XINHUA <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL, Oct 7 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; Three Afghan security forces and 18 Taliban militants were killed, in fresh clashes in the country&#8217;s northern Kunduz province, Sunday night, the Afghan Interior Ministry said. &#8220;Security forces fought a tense battle with Taliban militants, after they attacked Qalay-i-Zal district, with assault rifles and machine guns,&#8221; the ministry said. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":45329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45327"}],"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=45327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}