{"id":1542,"date":"2011-05-10T17:04:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T17:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2011-05-10T17:04:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T17:04:42","slug":"taliban-attack-us-base-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2011\/05\/10\/1542\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban attack US base in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"taliban\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/taliban.jpg\" height=\"183\" width=\"228\" \/>Taliban militants say they have launched a missile attack on the biggest US-led military base in the troubled western Afghanistan.<br \/>According to a Taliban spokesman, the Taliban militants\u00a0 shelled a military airport in Shindand town in Herat Province, a Press TV correspondent reported.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Qari Yousef Ahmadi said the attack has inflicted heavy casualties and damage on foreign troops.<br \/>Taliban also claim that they have inflicted heavy casualties on Afghan troops.<br \/>The Taliban spokesman also claimed that an official with Afghanistan transportation ministry has been killed in the attack.<br \/>However, Afghan military and government officials are yet to confirm the incident.<br \/>This comes after armed Taliban militants targeted several government buildings and instillations in Afghan city of Kandahar. More than two dozen people were killed in the assaults.<br \/>Meanwhile, militant attacks and bomb explosions have also killed at least three US-led soldiers in the ongoing war in the country&#8217;s troubled south over the past 24 hours.<br \/>So far this year nearly 170 foreign soldiers, most of them American, have been killed in Afghanistan.<br \/>The renewed violence comes days after Taliban militants warned of a fresh wave of attacks against foreign troops, Afghan security forces and government officials.<br \/>The surge in violence comes despite the presence of some 150,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Press TV<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban militants say they have launched a missile attack on the biggest US-led military base in the troubled western Afghanistan.According to a Taliban spokesman, the Taliban militants\u00a0 shelled a military airport in Shindand town in Herat Province, a Press TV correspondent reported.<\/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-1542","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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