{"id":60829,"date":"2020-02-05T07:49:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T23:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60829"},"modified":"2020-02-05T07:59:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T23:59:37","slug":"13-killed-in-afghanistan-clashes-including-pro-govt-local-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60829","title":{"rendered":"13 Killed In Afghanistan Clashes, Including Pro-Gov&#8217;t Local Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SHEBERGHAN, Afghanistan, Feb 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; Thirteen were killed during an ambush, in northern Jawzjan province overnight, including a pro-government local leader, one of his men and 11 Taliban militants, a provincial government spokesman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The incident occurred along Jawzjan-Sari Pul main road on Monday night, after Taliban militants attacked a unit of pro-government tribal militia group, known as local uprising fighters,&#8221; spokesman Abdul Maruf Azar, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 11 bodies of the militants would be handed over to local villagers or Afghan Red Crescent personnel later in the day, Azar noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The obvious target of the ambush was local leader, Tofan, who led local uprising fighters and lost his life in the targeted attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least eight people were killed in targeted attacks in Jan, this year across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taliban militants, who ruled the country before being ousted in late 2001, renewed armed insurgency, killing government troops, as well as, civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They frequently attack district offices, military camps, installations and security checkpoints, while the Afghan military respond with airstrikes on militant targets in the countryside.&#8211; NNN-AGENCIES  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHEBERGHAN, Afghanistan, Feb 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; Thirteen were killed during an ambush, in northern Jawzjan province overnight, including a pro-government local leader, one of his men and 11 Taliban militants, a provincial government spokesman said. &#8220;The incident occurred along Jawzjan-Sari Pul main road on Monday night, after Taliban militants attacked a unit of pro-government tribal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":60835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286,291,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60829"}],"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=60829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}