{"id":23730,"date":"2013-01-26T19:58:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T18:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/01\/26\/285700\/polish-soldier-killed-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2013-01-26T19:58:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T18:58:26","slug":"polish-soldier-killed-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/polish-soldier-killed-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Polish soldier killed in Afghanistan\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">US-led soldiers protect a wounded comrade from dust and smoke flares after an explosion during a patrol in Logar Province on October 13, 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>Taliban militants say they have killed a Polish soldier serving with the US-led NATO forces in a bomb attack carried out in central Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the bomb explosion occurred in the war-torn country\u2019s central province of Ghazni, killing the soldier who was on patrol in Shelgar area.<\/p>\n<p>Two other Polish soldiers were reportedly wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>On January 23, Captain Krzysztof Wozniak, who was a member of Poland\u2019s Elite Special Forces Unit (GROM), succumbed to his injuries hours after a gunman opened fire on a group of Polish soldiers on patrol in the same province.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The new casualty brought to nearly 40 the number of Polish troops killed in the war-torn country since March 2002 when Poland deployed its troops to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe increasing number of military casualties in Afghanistan has caused widespread anger in the US and other NATO member states, undermining public support for the Afghan war.<\/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 high across the country.<\/p>\n<p>MKA\/HGH<\/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-led soldiers protect a wounded comrade from dust and smoke flares after an explosion during a patrol in Logar Province on October 13, 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Taliban militants say they have killed a Polish soldier serving with the US-led NATO forces in a bomb attack carried out in central Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the bomb explosion occurred in the war-torn country&rsquo;s central province of Ghazni, killing the soldier who was on patrol in Shelgar area.<\/p>\n<p>Two other Polish soldiers were reportedly wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>On January 23, Captain Krzysztof Wozniak, who was a member of Poland&rsquo;s Elite Special Forces Unit (GROM), succumbed to his injuries hours after a gunman opened fire on a group of Polish soldiers on patrol in the same province.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The new casualty brought to nearly 40 the number of Polish troops killed in the war-torn country since March 2002 when Poland deployed its troops to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe increasing number of military casualties in Afghanistan has caused widespread anger in the US and other NATO member states, undermining public support for the Afghan war.<\/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 high across the country.<\/p>\n<p>MKA\/HGH<\/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-23730","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\/23730","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=23730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}