{"id":5842,"date":"2018-05-09T12:26:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T12:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/5842-taliban-seize-another-district-center-as-afghan-fighting-continues\/"},"modified":"2018-05-09T12:26:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T12:26:53","slug":"taliban-seize-another-district-center-as-afghan-fighting-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/5842-taliban-seize-another-district-center-as-afghan-fighting-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban seize another district center as Afghan fighting continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban fighters seized a district in the northern province of Baghlan on Tuesday and kept up pressure on the central city of Ghazni as heavy fighting continued across Afghanistan following the start of the insurgents\u2019 annual spring offensive last month.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Taliban fighters seized a district in the northern province of Baghlan on Tuesday and kept up pressure on the central city of Ghazni as heavy fighting continued across Afghanistan following the start of the insurgents\u2019 annual spring offensive last month.<\/h4>\n<h4>Police officials said security forces had abandoned the district center of Tala-wa Bafrak after becoming cut off from supplies during days of fighting.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cThe Taliban have been attacking the district for a few days and at 11 a.m. we had to retreat,\u201d said provincial police spokesman Zabihullah Shuja.<\/h4>\n<h4>The loss follows Taliban pressure last week on the northern province of Badakhshan, where the insurgents took control of a district center and have been battling government forces who claimed to have retaken it.<\/h4>\n<h4>In Ghazni province, south of the capital Kabul, government forces backed by air strikes have been battling for control of a key highway and fierce fighting continued on Tuesday, with the Taliban saying it had killed more than 100 government troops.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban fighters seized a district in the northern province of Baghlan on Tuesday and kept up pressure on the central city of Ghazni as heavy fighting continued across Afghanistan following the start of the insurgents\u2019 annual spring offensive last month. \u00a0 \u00a0 Taliban fighters seized a district in the northern province of Baghlan on Tuesday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[43,473,563,44],"class_list":["post-5842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-afghanistan","tag-government","tag-province","tag-taliban"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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