{"id":22103,"date":"2013-01-20T11:34:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T10:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/01\/20\/284566\/us-assassination-drone-kills-5-afghans\/"},"modified":"2013-01-20T11:34:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T10:34:30","slug":"us-assassination-drone-kills-5-afghans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-assassination-drone-kills-5-afghans\/","title":{"rendered":"US assassination drone kills 5 Afghans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">US assassination drone hovering over Pakistani air space. (File photo)<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>At least five civilians have been killed in a US assassination drone strike carried out in Afghanistan\u2019s northeastern province of Kunar, <strong>Press TV<\/strong> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Villagers say all the victims were civilians and had no links to any militant group.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Kunar which is located near the border with Pakistan has been the scene of frequent US assassination drone attacks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nWashington claims the targets of the drone attacks are al-Qaeda militants, but local officials and witnesses maintain that civilians have been the main victims of the attacks over the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>The United States also carries out targeted killings through drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>The United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan in 2001 as part of Washington\u2019s so-called war on terror. The offensive removed the Taliban from power, but insecurity continues to rise across the country, despite the presence of about 100,000 US-led troops.<\/p>\n<p>ASH\/SZH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span>US assassination drone hovering over Pakistani air space. (File photo)<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>At least five civilians have been killed in a US assassination drone strike carried out in Afghanistan&rsquo;s northeastern province of Kunar, <strong>Press TV<\/strong> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Villagers say all the victims were civilians and had no links to any militant group.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Kunar which is located near the border with Pakistan has been the scene of frequent US assassination drone attacks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nWashington claims the targets of the drone attacks are al-Qaeda militants, but local officials and witnesses maintain that civilians have been the main victims of the attacks over the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>The United States also carries out targeted killings through drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>The United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan in 2001 as part of Washington&rsquo;s so-called war on terror. The offensive removed the Taliban from power, but insecurity continues to rise across the country, despite the presence of about 100,000 US-led troops.<\/p>\n<p>ASH\/SZH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}