{"id":8177,"date":"2019-10-02T15:03:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T15:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/8177-taliban-attack-kills-at-least-11-police-in-northern-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2019-10-02T15:03:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T15:03:36","slug":"taliban-attack-kills-at-least-11-police-in-northern-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/8177-taliban-attack-kills-at-least-11-police-in-northern-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban attack kills at least 11 police in northern Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">The Taliban killed at least 11 police officers in Afghanistan\u2019s northern Balkh province before burning their headquarters, officials said on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Taliban killed at least 11 police officers in Afghanistan\u2019s northern Balkh province before burning their headquarters, officials said on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The insurgent group\u2019s attacks in Balkh\u2019s Shortepa district started on Monday evening and carried into early Tuesday. After taking control of the police headquarters in the district in a gun battle, the Taliban set fire to it, said Munir Farhad, spokesman for Balkh\u2019s provincial governor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Afghan National Defense and Security Forces retook the police headquarters after reinforcements arrived.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the group killed 30 police in the district. It posted a video online that it said depicted the police headquarters engulfed in flames, and guns that it had seized.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have also clashed with Afghan forces in three districts of Takhar province since Saturday, and fighting continued on Tuesday in Baharak, one of the districts, said Jawad Hejri, spokesman for the provincial governor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Taliban attacks in Balkh and Takhar provinces reflect the group\u2019s effort to fortify its strength in the north, where it already holds a stronghold in Kunduz province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban killed at least 11 police officers in Afghanistan\u2019s northern Balkh province before burning their headquarters, officials said on Tuesday.\u00a0 The Taliban killed at least 11 police officers in Afghanistan\u2019s northern Balkh province before burning their headquarters, officials said on Tuesday.\u00a0 The insurgent group\u2019s attacks in Balkh\u2019s Shortepa district started on Monday evening and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19952,"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":[30],"tags":[43,363,44],"class_list":["post-8177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-afghanistan","tag-attack","tag-taliban"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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