{"id":6887,"date":"2019-01-02T16:10:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T16:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/6887-taliban-kill-21-afghan-security-forces-in-country-s-north\/"},"modified":"2019-01-02T16:10:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T16:10:39","slug":"taliban-kill-21-afghan-security-forces-in-country-s-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/6887-taliban-kill-21-afghan-security-forces-in-country-s-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban kill 21 Afghan security forces in country\u2019s north"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban militants have killed at least 21 Afghan security forces and wounded nearly two dozen others in a number of simultaneous attacks in the country\u2019s north.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>The Taliban militants have killed at least 21 Afghan security forces and wounded nearly two dozen others in a number of simultaneous attacks in the country\u2019s north.<\/h4>\n<h4>Local officials said on Tuesday that the casualties took place when the militants carried out attacks on security outposts in Sayad district of the northern province of Sar-e Pul.<\/h4>\n<h4>Zabihullah Amani, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said at least 21 local forces, including police and intelligence, were killed and another 23 wounded in the raids, which he said were aimed at seizing control of several oil wells on the outskirts of the provincial capital city of Sar-e Pul.<\/h4>\n<h4>Amani also said hundreds of militants were still outside Sar-e-Pul, warning that the city was at risk of falling to the Taliban if reinforcements were not sent.<\/h4>\n<h4>&#8220;The enemy is still amassing forces outside the city,&#8221; he told AFP. &#8220;We have deployed all the forces available in the city, but no reinforcements have arrived from outside so far. 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They have attacked the city many times in the past, but this time the threat is more serious.\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>The Taliban confirmed the attacks on the northern Afghan province, claiming that they had captured three checkpoints and killed or wounded 50 members of the security forces.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban militants have killed at least 21 Afghan security forces and wounded nearly two dozen others in a number of simultaneous attacks in the country\u2019s north. \u00a0 The Taliban militants have killed at least 21 Afghan security forces and wounded nearly two dozen others in a number of simultaneous attacks in the country\u2019s north. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18283,"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":[43,670,703,44],"class_list":["post-6887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-afghanistan","tag-kill","tag-security","tag-taliban"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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