{"id":386800,"date":"2018-11-27T19:23:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T18:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-3-us-soldiers-killed-in-bomb-attack-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2018-11-27T19:23:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T18:23:08","slug":"presstv-3-us-soldiers-killed-in-bomb-attack-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-3-us-soldiers-killed-in-bomb-attack-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-3 US soldiers killed in bomb attack in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>At least three US servicemen have been killed and three others wounded when an improvised explosive device went off in central Afghanistan, the NATO mission in the war-torn country says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A brief statement by the NATO-led Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan released on Tuesday\u00a0added\u00a0that the incident took place near the central Afghan city of Ghazni earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>The statement further noted that a US civilian contractor had also been injured in the blast.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the soldiers and further details of the incident were not immediately released by the NATO mission.<\/p>\n<p>The deaths are the latest in an increasing toll on the American forces in Afghanistan. On Saturday, a US army soldier was shot dead following a purported operation against the Takfiri al-Qaeda terrorist group in the southwestern province of Nimruz. The NATO mission said in a statement that the trooper had been accidentally killed by a member of Afghan partner&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/11\/27\/581297\/Afghanistan-NATO-US-soldiers-bomb-Ghazni-Taliban-Daesh\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least three US servicemen have been killed and three others wounded when an improvised explosive device went off in central Afghanistan, the NATO mission in the war-torn country says. A brief statement by the NATO-led Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan released on Tuesday\u00a0added\u00a0that the incident took place near the central Afghan city of Ghazni [&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-386800","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\/386800","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=386800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}