{"id":3119,"date":"2020-11-02T05:06:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T05:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caps.af\/?p=3119"},"modified":"2020-11-02T05:06:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T05:06:28","slug":"commander-of-taliban-special-forces-unit-killed-in-helmand-airstrike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps.af\/?p=3119","title":{"rendered":"Commander of Taliban special forces unit killed in Helmand airstrike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><strong>(ATN News): The commander for a Taliban Red Unit for Nadali district of southern Helmand province was killed in an airstrike by the Afghan security forces on Saturday, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) confirmed.<\/strong><br \/>\nIn a statement released on Sunday, the MoD stated: \u201cAbdul Rahman, commander of the Taliban\u2019s Red Unit for Nadali district of Helmand province\u201d was killed in an airstrike.\u00a0 At least seven other insurgents were also killed in the air raid, the statement noted.\u00a0 \u201cThey were targeted by Afghan Air Forces while they were planning to launch terrorist attacks,\u201d the statement read. According to the ministry, Abdul Rahman, commander of a 50-member militant unit, had been involved in \u201cdestructive activities\u201d in the Nadali district. The Taliban has not commented in this regard so far. This comes after a Taliban deputy military commissioner Mullah Amanullah was also killed along with his eight fighters in the Nawa district of Helmand on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ATN News): The commander for a Taliban Red Unit for Nadali district of southern Helmand province was killed in an airstrike by the Afghan security forces on Saturday, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) confirmed. In a statement released on Sunday, the MoD stated: \u201cAbdul Rahman, commander of the Taliban\u2019s Red Unit for Nadali district of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3120,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions\/3120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}