{"id":6791,"date":"2019-07-18T11:09:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T06:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=6791"},"modified":"2019-07-18T11:09:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T06:09:37","slug":"more-than-20-elite-afghan-commandos-killed-in-taliban-ambush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/6791","title":{"rendered":"More than 20 elite Afghan commandos killed in Taliban ambush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 20 Afghan commandos were killed in a Taliban ambush in western Afghanistan, according to officials, marking yet another loss for the elite troops amid a push to end the war.<\/p>\n<p>Badghis provincial governor Abdul Ghafoor Malikzai said the special forces soldiers were ambushed Monday after flying into Abkamari district in Badghis province, a known Taliban hot spot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The commando forces descended&#8230; without coordination with other security forces. They were surrounded by Taliban fighters and fought for hours. But unfortunately, 21 of them were killed. Some were captured,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghan defence ministry had no immediate comment.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghan war grinds on even as the U.S and the Taliban have held talks about a possible peace agreement, with Afghan fighters and the\u00a0Taliban\u00a0still taking daily losses.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, four Afghan security forces were killed in Qala-i-Naw, the capital of Badghis province, when\u00a0Taliban\u00a0insurgents attacked a hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 20 Afghan commandos were killed in a Taliban ambush in western Afghanistan, according to officials, marking yet another loss for the elite troops amid a push to end the war. Badghis provincial governor Abdul Ghafoor Malikzai said the special forces soldiers were ambushed Monday after flying into Abkamari district in Badghis province, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6793,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791\/revisions\/6793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}