{"id":50309,"date":"2015-05-24T13:49:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T05:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=50309"},"modified":"2015-05-24T13:49:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T05:49:41","slug":"at-least-10-afghan-police-officers-killed-in-taliban-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/24\/at-least-10-afghan-police-officers-killed-in-taliban-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 10 Afghan police officers killed in Taliban assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/kandahar.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35738\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/kandahar.gif\" alt=\"kandahar\" width=\"460\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>KANDAHAR, Afghanistan \u2014 Officials in Afghanistan say at least 10 police officers have been killed in an ongoing Taliban assault in the country&#8217;s volatile south.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Ismail Hotaki, director of Helmand province&#8217;s Joint Coordination Office, says Taliban fighters attacked 10 police checkpoints in the province&#8217;s Sangin district. He says three have been captured by Taliban and they are surging forward in their assault Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say there are a large number of Taliban fighters involved in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have launched a number of attacks across many part of Afghanistan since their warm-weather offensive began on April 24. Police checkpoints are regular targets as they are often poorly manned and vulnerable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANDAHAR, Afghanistan \u2014 Officials in Afghanistan say at least 10 police officers have been killed in an ongoing Taliban assault &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":35738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-w","mauthors-the-associated-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50309","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}