{"id":46020,"date":"2019-10-12T14:09:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T06:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=46020"},"modified":"2019-10-12T14:16:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T06:16:54","slug":"airstrike-kills-four-militants-in-w-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=46020","title":{"rendered":"Airstrike Kills Four Militants In W. Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FARAH, Afghanistan, Oct 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; Four militants, including a Taliban shadow district chief, were killed, in an airstrike, in Afghanistan&#8217;s western Farah province, on Friday night, local police said today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The strike targeted a running vehicle in Urfabad village of Bala Buluk district, roughly at 8:30 p.m. local time Friday. As a result, Mullah Bari, his son and two of his associates were dead,&#8221; provincial police said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deceased Taliban local leader Bari, who served as the militants&#8217; shadow chief of neighbouring Khaki Safed district, was found to be involved in a string of attacks against security forces in Farah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The militants&#8217; vehicle was also destroyed in the sortie and\nno civilian was near the site when the strike was conducted, according to the\nstatement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taliban militants, controlling parts of Farah, use rugged terrains and mountains as hideouts, and frequently launch hit-and-run attacks against security forces.&#8211; NNN-AGENCIES <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARAH, Afghanistan, Oct 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; Four militants, including a Taliban shadow district chief, were killed, in an airstrike, in Afghanistan&#8217;s western Farah province, on Friday night, local police said today. &#8220;The strike targeted a running vehicle in Urfabad village of Bala Buluk district, roughly at 8:30 p.m. local time Friday. As a result, Mullah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":46022,"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\/46020"}],"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=46020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}