{"id":1105,"date":"2021-05-23T11:34:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T11:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2021-05-23T11:34:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T11:34:44","slug":"8-soldiers-20-taliban-killed-as-clashes-continue-in-baghlan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/2021\/05\/23\/8-soldiers-20-taliban-killed-as-clashes-continue-in-baghlan\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Soldiers, 20 Taliban Killed as Clashes Continue in Baghlan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"related-post clearfix view view-article-single view-id-article_single view-display-id-article_body js-view-dom-id-3627238df68ad0a99be18da98654b9edebbcaf893cde04bf7afd14cf0c2c3059\">\n<div class=\"view-content\">\n<div class=\"views-row\">\n<div class=\"entry-summary clearfix\">\n<div class=\"views-field views-field-field-article-body-summary-1 full-html-text\">\n<p><strong>Eight members of the Afghan forces were killed in an attack by the Taliban on their outposts in Guzargah-e-Noor district in Baghlan on Friday night, two sources from security agencies in the province said on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Defense Ministry in a statement said that 20 Taliban including Amrullah, the designated district governor of Taliban for the district, were killed in Afghan forces air and ground operations in Guzargah-e-Noor, Julga and Baghlan-e-Jadid districts of Baghlan on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Six soldiers were wounded in the attack that started at midnight, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of Taliban fighters went to Guzargah-e-Noor district after they were pushed back from Baghlan-e-Markazi district in the province, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The 217 Pamir Corp Commander Abbas Tawakuli said that six Taliban, including their key commander, were killed and seven more were wounded in the clashes.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the Taliban left the area after reinforcements arrived.<\/p>\n<p>The commander said that Afghan forces also suffered casualties in the attack but did not provide exact details.<\/p>\n<p>This comes amidst a sharp increase in violence in the country following a three-day ceasefire from May 13 to May 15.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-blog-meta\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight members of the Afghan forces were killed in an attack by the Taliban on their outposts in Guzargah-e-Noor district in Baghlan on Friday night, two sources from security agencies in the province said on Saturday. The Defense Ministry in a statement said that 20 Taliban including Amrullah, the designated district governor of Taliban for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afg_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}