{"id":321375,"date":"2017-08-12T10:11:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T09:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-military-denies-airstrike-killed-civilians-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2017-08-12T10:11:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T09:11:35","slug":"us-military-denies-airstrike-killed-civilians-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-military-denies-airstrike-killed-civilians-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"US military denies airstrike killed civilians in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US military has strongly denied that American forces killed civilians in a recent airstrike in the eastern part of Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Afghan officials had said at least 16 civilians, including women and children, were killed on Thursday when a private vehicle was struck in Haska Mina district in the eastern province of Nangarhar.<\/p>\n<p>But US Forces-Afghanistan said in a statement on Saturday that the airstrike &#8220;killed a number of militants,&#8221; not civilians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The militants were observed loading weapons in to a vehicle and were under surveillance until the vehicle was destroyed by an airstrike,&#8221; said Bob Purtiman, a spokesman for the American military in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The strike was conducted in the middle of open terrain. There was zero chance of civilian casualties,\u201d Purtiman added. &#8220;This was the second false claim of civilian casualties in the same district in the last three weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United States currently has about 8,400&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/08\/12\/531494\/US-airstrike-Civilian-casualties\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military has strongly denied that American forces killed civilians in a recent airstrike in the eastern part of Afghanistan. Afghan officials had said at least 16 civilians, including women and children, were killed on Thursday when a private vehicle was struck in Haska Mina district in the eastern province of Nangarhar. But US [&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-321375","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\/321375","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=321375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}