{"id":10171,"date":"2021-09-23T10:26:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T10:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=10171"},"modified":"2021-09-23T10:26:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T10:26:33","slug":"two-taliban-fighters-one-civilian-killed-in-jalalabad-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=10171&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Two Taliban fighters, one civilian killed in Jalalabad attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mishaal Arshad CM Underground News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>The attack in Jalalabad city is the latest on Taliban targets in Nangarhar province.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Nangarhar province for years was the main operating base of Daesh Khorasan.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>A Taliban official confirmed the attack, but said the dead were all civilians.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN: Two Taliban fighters and a civilian were shot dead by gunmen in an armed attack at a checkpoint in eastern Afghanistan, sources within the security and witnesses said Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attack in Jalalabad city is the latest on Taliban targets in Nangarhar province, which for years was the main operating base of Daesh\u2019s Afghanistan chapter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A security source and witnesses said unidentified gunmen in a rickshaw attacked a checkpoint in Ghawchak district of Jalalabad and killed two Taliban guards and a civilian bystander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Taliban official confirmed the attack, but said the dead were all civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another incident, local residents told\u00a0<em>AFP<\/em>\u00a0that two Taliban fighters were injured while trying to defuse an improvised explosive device in Jalalabad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further details were not immediately available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daesh Khorasan, a local branch of the extremist group, claimed responsibility for several weekend attacks in Jalalabad that killed at least two people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were the first deadly blasts since the last US forces withdrew from Afghanistan on August 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daesh-K also claimed responsibility for a bloody attack that killed more than 100 people at Kabul airport at the end of August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although both Daesh and the Taliban are militant groups, they differ on the issues of religion and strategy, which has led to bloody fighting between the two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mishaal Arshad CM Underground News The attack in Jalalabad city is the latest on Taliban targets in Nangarhar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,71,34],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-important-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-world","10":"cs-entry","11":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10173,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10171\/revisions\/10173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}