{"id":6054,"date":"2019-07-01T18:07:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T18:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=6054"},"modified":"2019-07-01T18:07:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T18:07:51","slug":"heavy-blast-rocks-kabul-as-peace-talks-continue-in-doha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/heavy-blast-rocks-kabul-as-peace-talks-continue-in-doha\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy blast rocks Kabul as peace talks continue in Doha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dozens wounded as powerful blast rocks Kabul<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A powerful bomb blast rocked the Afghan capital on Monday, sending smoke in the Kabul skies and wounding at least 65 people, including nine children hurt by flying glass, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The bomb blast hit a military compound in Kabul less than two miles from the U.S. Embassy.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Karim, a police official in the area, said a car bomb exploded outside a Defense Ministry building. Militants then ran into a nearby high-rise in a crowded market area and began firing down toward the ministry. Police and Afghan security forces swarmed the area and cordoned it off.<\/p>\n<p>About 50 children who were in two nearby schools are among the wounded, the education ministry says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dozens of wounded were taken to hospitals from today&#8217;s blast in Kabul,&#8221; health ministry spokesman Wahidullah Mayar tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>The area was quickly blocked off by Afghan forces and ambulances, while the nearby &#8220;Green Zone&#8221; diplomatic area was put on lockdown, with no one allowed in or out.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban claimed responsibility for the July 1 attack, which comes amid new round of peace talks between Taliban and United States in Qatar to try to put an end to the nearly 18-year war in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Kabul-AFP-July-1-2019.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6056\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Kabul-AFP-July-1-2019.jpg?resize=768%2C533\" alt=\"Kabul explosion AFP July 1, 2019\" width=\"768\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Kabul-AFP-July-1-2019.jpg?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Kabul-AFP-July-1-2019.jpg?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens wounded as powerful blast rocks Kabul A powerful bomb blast rocked the Afghan capital on Monday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6055,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124,1],"tags":[9,137,214,10,7],"class_list":["post-6054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-asia","tag-bombing","tag-taliban","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Powerful-blast-rocked-Kabul-on-Monday-morning-before-a-group-of-militants-opened-fire-on-the-Defence-Ministry-AP-Photo-Rahmat-Gul.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1zE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054","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=6054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6059,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054\/revisions\/6059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}