{"id":263372,"date":"2016-08-23T16:02:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T16:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/roadside-bomb-kills-us-soldier-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2016-08-23T16:02:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T16:02:56","slug":"roadside-bomb-kills-us-soldier-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/roadside-bomb-kills-us-soldier-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Roadside bomb kills US soldier in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>A roadside bomb attack in the southern Afghan province of Helmand has killed a US soldier and left another injured.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan said the casualties took place on Tuesday when a US military patrol was struck by a roadside bomb in the provincial capital city of Lashkar Gah. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The incident also left six Afghan security forces wounded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">US military officials claimed that their soldier was killed during operations carried out against the Taliban militants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The attack came a day after US officials announced that 100 American troops had been sent to the volatile region to help prevent the city from falling to the militant group. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">This marks the first major American deployment to southern Afghanistan since foreign forces withdrew from there in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The Taliban has <\/span><span style=\"color:#000000\">seized a number of districts in Helmand, Baghlan and Takhar provinces in the past weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure style=\"display:inline-block\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"313\" width=\"555\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20160823\/8616c6cf-9c3f-4f37-bb41-6ba4ba85033b.jpg\"\/><figcaption><em>This file photo shows members of the Taliban militant group in an undisclosed location in&#8230;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/08\/23\/481371\/US-soldier-Helmand-Lashkar-Gah-Taliban\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A roadside bomb attack in the southern Afghan province of Helmand has killed a US soldier and left another injured. The US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan said the casualties took place on Tuesday when a US military patrol was struck by a roadside bomb in the provincial capital city of Lashkar Gah. The incident also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-263372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263372","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}