{"id":704,"date":"2015-01-18T09:37:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T09:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=704"},"modified":"2015-01-18T11:22:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T11:22:49","slug":"afghan-forces-kills-10-militants-in-northern-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/afghan-forces-kills-10-militants-in-northern-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan forces kills 10 militants in northern Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A<\/span>fghan security forces have killed 10 militants during an operation supported by local citizens in the northern part of the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sayed Sarwar Hussaini, spokesman for the police chief in Kunduz province, four militants were also injured in the raid in the Khan Abad district.<\/p>\n<p>Hussaini added that the operation left five local civilians taking part in the fight wounded.<\/p>\n<p>On January 15, Afghanistan\u2019s Interior Ministry said a senior Taliban member and four other militants were killed in clashes with security forces in the northeast.<\/p>\n<p>Afghan forces took over full responsibility for the country\u2019s security from US-led forces on January 1.<\/p>\n<p>The US-led combat mission in Afghanistan ended on December 31, 2014. Around 13,000 foreign troops &#8211; mostly from the United States &#8211; will remain in what is said to be a training and advisory mission.<\/p>\n<p>US-led NATO says the forces will focus more narrowly on counterterrorism and on training Afghan soldiers and policemen. Under the new mission, the US-led forces will also enter into operations against the Taliban or intervene with airstrikes in support of the Afghan military.<\/p>\n<p>On January 1, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani called on the army and police to defend Afghanistan against Taliban militants.<\/p>\n<p>MR\/BB\/KA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan security forces have killed 10 militants during an operation supported by local citizens in the northern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":705,"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":[9,6,15,113,11],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-defense","tag-militants","tag-security","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Afghan_Soldiers.jpg?fit=640%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-bm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","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=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}