{"id":23429,"date":"2013-01-25T12:27:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T11:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/01\/25\/285470\/georgia-soldiers-injured-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2013-01-25T12:27:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T11:27:37","slug":"georgia-soldiers-injured-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/georgia-soldiers-injured-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia soldiers injured in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">Georgian soldiers are seen in a military base in Afghanistan. (File photo)<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>Three Georgian soldiers have been injured in attacks carried out in Afghanistan\u2019s southern province of Helmand, <strong>Press TV<\/strong> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Georgian military officials said on Friday that Corporal Erekle Kharshiladze and Junior Sergeant Iago Kakulia came under fire during a patrol in Helmand the previous day. The two were reportedly taken to a hospital in Landstuhl in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate incident, Private Guram Chimakhidze was also injured in an anti-personnel mine explosion while patrolling, the officials added.<\/p>\n<p>Reports say Georgia has about 1,600 soldiers in Afghanistan, mainly in Helmand.<\/p>\n<p>Eight Georgian troops lost their lives in Afghanistan in 2012. The Georgian Ministry of Defense says over 90 soldiers were wounded in the country in 2010-2012.<\/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 remains across the country.<\/p>\n<p>AZA\/SAB\/HSN<\/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>Georgian soldiers are seen in a military base in Afghanistan. (File photo)<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Three Georgian soldiers have been injured in attacks carried out in Afghanistan&rsquo;s southern province of Helmand, <strong>Press TV<\/strong> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Georgian military officials said on Friday that Corporal Erekle Kharshiladze and Junior Sergeant Iago Kakulia came under fire during a patrol in Helmand the previous day. The two were reportedly taken to a hospital in Landstuhl in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate incident, Private Guram Chimakhidze was also injured in an anti-personnel mine explosion while patrolling, the officials added.<\/p>\n<p>Reports say Georgia has about 1,600 soldiers in Afghanistan, mainly in Helmand.<\/p>\n<p>Eight Georgian troops lost their lives in Afghanistan in 2012. The Georgian Ministry of Defense says over 90 soldiers were wounded in the country in 2010-2012.<\/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 remains across the country.<\/p>\n<p>AZA\/SAB\/HSN<\/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-23429","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\/23429","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=23429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}