{"id":27749,"date":"2013-02-12T19:55:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T18:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/02\/12\/288659\/us-kills-senior-taliban-commanders\/"},"modified":"2013-02-12T19:55:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T18:55:28","slug":"us-kills-senior-taliban-commanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-kills-senior-taliban-commanders\/","title":{"rendered":"US kills senior Taliban commanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">File photo shows a group of Taliban militants in Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>The United States is indulged in clobbering senior Taliban leaders under the cover of political negotiations in the war-torn Afghanistan, analysts say.<\/p>\n<p>In the most recent case, a senior Taliban commander was killed in a joint military operation by Afghan security forces and US-led soldiers in Afghanistan\u2019s southern province of Kandahar.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement released by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Tuesday, \u201cTor Jan, also known as Graan, was a Taliban leader and facilitator who organized attacks against Afghan and coalition forces&#8230;The security forces conducted a precision strike, killing him.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHe coordinated the use of improvised explosive devices, weapons and personnel for attacks in Maiwand district. The security force also &#8230; seized multiple firearms and ammunition as a result of the operation,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe United States and its allies entered the war in Afghanistan in October 2001 as part of Washington\u2019s so-called war on terror. The offensive removed the Taliban from power, but after more than 11 years, the foreign troops have still not been able to establish security in the country.<\/p>\n<p>MAM\/PKH<\/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>File photo shows a group of Taliban militants in Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The United States is indulged in clobbering senior Taliban leaders under the cover of political negotiations in the war-torn Afghanistan, analysts say.<\/p>\n<p>In the most recent case, a senior Taliban commander was killed in a joint military operation by Afghan security forces and US-led soldiers in Afghanistan&rsquo;s southern province of Kandahar.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement released by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Tuesday, &ldquo;Tor Jan, also known as Graan, was a Taliban leader and facilitator who organized attacks against Afghan and coalition forces&#8230;The security forces conducted a precision strike, killing him.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;He coordinated the use of improvised explosive devices, weapons and personnel for attacks in Maiwand district. The security force also &#8230; seized multiple firearms and ammunition as a result of the operation,&rdquo; it added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe United States and its allies entered the war in Afghanistan in October 2001 as part of Washington&rsquo;s so-called war on terror. The offensive removed the Taliban from power, but after more than 11 years, the foreign troops have still not been able to establish security in the country.<\/p>\n<p>MAM\/PKH<\/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-27749","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\/27749","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=27749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}