{"id":388,"date":"2015-01-05T09:57:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T09:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=388"},"modified":"2015-01-12T15:19:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T15:19:52","slug":"us-drone-strike-kills-seven-in-eastern-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/us-drone-strike-kills-seven-in-eastern-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"US drone strike kills seven in eastern Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least seven people have been killed in the latest\u00a0assassination drone strike carried out by the US forces in Afghanistan\u2019s eastern Khost Province.<\/p>\n<p>The US drone strike targeted a vehicle in the district of Spera on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Afghan officials say the seven killed in the attack were militants from the Haqqani Network. Their vehicle was completely destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>The province of Khost shares a long border with neighboring Pakistan\u2019s North Waziristan, where leaders of the Haqqani group are believed to be hiding.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Afghan officials said four Taliban militants were killed in a US assassination drone strike in Nuristan Province\u2019s Mandish village.<\/p>\n<p>A Taliban commander was also killed late last month in a similar attack.<\/p>\n<p>The United States regularly uses drones for assassination strikes and spying missions in Afghanistan, as well as in Pakistan\u2019s northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border. Washington also carries out drone attacks in Yemen and Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations (UN) and several human rights organizations have identified the United States as the world\u2019s number-one user of \u201ctargeted killings,\u201d largely due to its drone attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2015\/01\/05\/391670\/US-drone-strike-in-Afghanistan-kills-7\" target=\"_blank\">SZH\/HJL\/Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least seven people have been killed in the latest\u00a0assassination drone strike carried out by the US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124,1],"tags":[9,43,15,10,7],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-drone","tag-militants","tag-taliban","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Drone_MQ9.jpg?fit=640%2C357&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-6g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}