{"id":67142,"date":"2016-07-29T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67142"},"modified":"2016-07-28T16:25:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T20:25:09","slug":"5-us-troops-wounded-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67142","title":{"rendered":"5 US troops wounded in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Kristina Wong at <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/289614-general-five-us-special-operators-wounded-fighting-isis-in-afghanistan#.V5pkqdjq3vc.facebook\">The Hill<\/a> writes that 5 special forces soldiers were wounded in Afghanistan during &#8220;partnered operations with Afghan special operators in the southern Afghanistan province of Nangarhar&#8221; against ISIS (not Taliban) troops. The wounds were not serious and two of the soldiers have returned to their units;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThey are in good spirits and have talked to their families,\u201d [Army Gen. John Nicholson] said. \u201cWe expect a full recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. and Afghan forces were moving south to clear ISIS from the province, Nicholson said. <\/p>\n<p>He estimated there are somewhere between 1,000 to 1,500 members of ISIS in Afghanistan, down from about 3,000. ISIS members are mostly in the provinces of Nangahar and Kunar, Nicholson said <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/checkpoint\/wp\/2016\/07\/28\/five-u-s-troops-wounded-in-afghanistan-fighting-islamic-state-top-general-says\/?hpid=hp_regional-hp-cards_rhp-card-national%3Ahomepage%2Fcard\">Washington Post<\/a>, Nicholson claimed that 70% of the ISIS forces were converts from the Taliban.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The joint U.S.-Afghan offensive operations against the Islamic State are just one part of a broader 2016 battle plan in Afghanistan, Nicholson said, one that involves widespread offensive operations against the Taliban, the Islamic State and other terrorist groups in the country&#8230;Additionally, U.S. forces have taken advantage of new authorities granted by Obama that allow for more leeway when it comes to advising and clearing airstrikes to better assist Afghan forces on the offensive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s nice&#8230;.the troops get more of the support they need more often. Say &#8220;Thanks, Obama&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Kristina Wong at The Hill writes that 5 special forces soldiers were wounded in &hellip; <a title=\"5 US troops wounded in Afghanistan\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67142\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">5 US troops wounded in Afghanistan<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}