{"id":302878,"date":"2017-04-08T21:43:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T20:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-soldier-killed-during-anti-daesh-operations-in-afghanistans-nangarhar\/"},"modified":"2017-04-08T21:43:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T20:43:22","slug":"us-soldier-killed-during-anti-daesh-operations-in-afghanistans-nangarhar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-soldier-killed-during-anti-daesh-operations-in-afghanistans-nangarhar\/","title":{"rendered":"US soldier killed during anti-Daesh operations in Afghanistan\u2019s Nangarhar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:black\">A US Special Forces\u00a0soldier has been killed while engaged in anti-Daesh operations in eastern Afghanistan.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">&#8220;The soldier was mortally wounded late Saturday during an operation in Nangarhar province&#8221; said US Navy Captain Bill Salvin on the NATO-led Afghan Resolute Support mission\u2019s official twitter account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">Salvin added that the exact circumstances of the Special Forces operator\u2019s death was still not clear and that further information would be announced shortly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:black\">Read More:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">Currently some 8,400 US troops are stationed in different bases in Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">The country is still suffering from insecurity and violence years after the United States and its allies invaded the country as part of Washington\u2019s so-called war on terror. The military invasion removed the Taliban from power, but their militancy continues to this day.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure style=\"display:inline-block\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.100.117\/\/photo\/20170408\/45859436-113f-4281-8a0d-13caa981f385.jpg\"\/><figcaption>In this photograph taken on February 9, 2017, Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers look on during training by Italian soldiers from&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/04\/08\/517285\/afghanistan-us-daesh-nangarhar\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US Special Forces\u00a0soldier has been killed while engaged in anti-Daesh operations in eastern Afghanistan. &#8220;The soldier was mortally wounded late Saturday during an operation in Nangarhar province&#8221; said US Navy Captain Bill Salvin on the NATO-led Afghan Resolute Support mission\u2019s official twitter account. Salvin added that the exact circumstances of the Special Forces operator\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-302878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302878","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=302878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}