{"id":100844,"date":"2017-05-03T03:38:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T07:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=100844"},"modified":"2017-05-03T03:38:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T07:38:04","slug":"attack-on-us-convoy-kills-8-afghans-wounds-3-us-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/03\/attack-on-us-convoy-kills-8-afghans-wounds-3-us-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack on US convoy kills 8 Afghans, wounds 3 US soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_100845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100845\" style=\"width: 776px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/776px-Afghanistan_physical_map.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100845\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/776px-Afghanistan_physical_map.svg_.png\" alt=\"A suicide car bomber struck a U.S. military convoy in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, killing at least eight Afghan civilians and wounding three U.S. service members, officials said. (Photo by Urutseg (Own work) [CC0])\" width=\"776\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/776px-Afghanistan_physical_map.svg_.png 776w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/776px-Afghanistan_physical_map.svg_-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/776px-Afghanistan_physical_map.svg_-768x594.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A suicide car bomber struck a U.S. military convoy in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, killing at least eight Afghan civilians and wounding three U.S. service members, officials said. (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AAfghanistan_physical_map.svg\">Urutseg (Own work) [CC0]<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>KABUL \u2014 A suicide car bomber struck a U.S. military convoy in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, killing at least eight Afghan civilians and wounding three U.S. service members, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Najib Danish, deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said another 25 Afghan civilians were wounded in the morning rush-hour attack near the U.S. Embassy, which destroyed several civilian vehicles<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Navy Cpt. Bill Salvin, a military spokesman, confirmed that three soldiers were wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>No one immediately claimed the attack, but the Taliban announced the start of their annual spring offensive on Friday, and have repeatedly targeted Afghan and U.S. forces in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Afghan forces have struggled to contain the Taliban since the U.S. and NATO officially concluded their combat mission at the end of 2014, switching to a support and counterterrorism role. The U.S. has more than 8,000 troops in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL \u2014 A suicide car bomber struck a U.S. military convoy in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, killing at least &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":100845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[12299],"class_list":["post-100844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-u-s-military","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}