{"id":640,"date":"2010-08-10T10:28:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T10:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=640"},"modified":"2010-08-10T10:28:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T10:28:08","slug":"scores-dead-after-taliban-nato-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/08\/10\/640\/","title":{"rendered":"Scores dead after Taliban, NATO clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"us-nato-air\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/us-nato-air.jpg\" width=\"206\" height=\"175\" \/>Violent clashes between US-led forces and Taliban militants have left several people dead in the troubled southeastern Afghanistan.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taliban militants launched attacks on three NATO combat posts in southeastern province of Paktika, a Press TV correspondent reported.<br \/>NATO says the strikes have sparked clashes between its forces and the Taliban.<br \/>&#8220;US and Afghan forces are thwarting insurgent attacks on three combat operation posts in&#8230; Paktika province today,&#8221; NATO said in a statement.<br \/>The alliance says one of its troops has been injured along with four Afghan soldiers.<br \/>Kabul government sources say at least seven attackers were killed by Afghan and NATO soldiers.<br \/>But Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid says at least 24 foreign and Afghan soldiers have been killed.<br \/>Similar strikes against Afghan and foreign bases in the region have recently intensified.<br \/>Elsewhere in the country, at least three more US-led foreign forces have been killed in separate attacks in southern Afghanistan.<br \/>NATO says one of the soldiers was killed in a bomb blast.<br \/>Two Americans were also killed in a gun attack by a prisoner in a coalition jail.<br \/>The alliance says the incident &#8211; which happened on Saturday &#8211; is under investigation. NATO has withheld other details on the incidents.<br \/>The deaths bring to over 425 the number of US-led forces killed in Afghanistan so far this year.<br \/>Meanwhile, the military alliance says a German drone has crashed in the northern Konduz province. NATO has blamed a technical glitch for the incident.<br \/>Foreign forces are experiencing some of their deadliest days in Afghanistan since the start of the US-led invasion of the country nine years ago.<br \/>According to official NATO tally almost 2,000 foreign soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan so far.<br \/>This is while Afghanistan&#8217;s official Baakhtar news agency said in a recent report that the US-led war has claimed the lives of nearly 4,500 foreign soldiers since 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Press TV<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violent clashes between US-led forces and Taliban militants have left several people dead in the troubled southeastern Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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