{"id":71491,"date":"2020-12-07T13:05:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T13:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=71491"},"modified":"2020-12-08T14:31:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T14:31:29","slug":"18-militants-killed-in-the-afghan-province-of-kandahar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/71491-18-militants-killed-in-the-afghan-province-of-kandahar\/","title":{"rendered":"18 militants killed in the Afghan province of Kandahar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-07_23-12-32-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-07_23-12-32-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-07_23-12-32-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-07_23-12-32-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-07_23-12-32-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/12\/photo_2020-12-07_23-12-32.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>The Afghan Ministry of Defense announced that at least 18 militants were killed in the southern province of Kandahar.<br>In a statement published by Xinhua, it indicated that &#8220;18 militants were killed, during the operations that covered parts of the Dand, Gilay and Maroud regions,&#8221; explaining that &#8220;anti-personnel and anti-vehicle mines were found, and they were neutralized.&#8221;<br>The Taliban terrorist movement, which is active in parts of Kandahar province, has not commented on these operations so far, according to the agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghan Ministry of Defense announced that at least 18 militants were killed in the southern province of Kandahar.In a statement published by Xinhua, it indicated that &#8220;18 militants were killed, during the operations that covered parts of the Dand, Gilay and Maroud regions,&#8221; explaining that &#8220;anti-personnel and anti-vehicle mines were found, and they were &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":71534,"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":[25,7,31],"tags":[43,934],"class_list":["post-71491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-islam","category-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-kandahar"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>18 militants killed in the Afghan province of Kandahar - Shia Waves<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/71491-18-militants-killed-in-the-afghan-province-of-kandahar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"18 militants killed in the Afghan province of Kandahar - Shia Waves\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Afghan Ministry of Defense announced that at least 18 militants were killed in the southern province of Kandahar.In a statement published by Xinhua, it indicated that &#8220;18 militants were killed, during the operations that covered parts of the Dand, Gilay and Maroud regions,&#8221; 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