{"id":68305,"date":"2016-10-04T16:06:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T20:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68305"},"modified":"2016-10-04T16:06:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T20:06:37","slug":"us-trooper-killed-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68305","title":{"rendered":"US trooper killed in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us a link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/checkpoint\/wp\/2016\/10\/04\/u-s-service-member-killed-in-afghanistan-in-an-operation-targeting-isis\/?hpid=hp_regional-hp-cards_rhp-card-national%3Ahomepage%2Fcard\">Washington Post<\/a> in which they report the death of a US service member during operations against ISIS in eastern Afghanistan\u2019s Nangarhar province in the Achin district near the Pakistan border. The report is that the soldier was dismounted and killed by an IED.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The death occurred as the U.S. military assisted Afghan forces with offensives in two other parts of the country. In the northern city of Kunduz, Afghan troops pushed out insurgents late Tuesday in an operation backed by U.S. air power. In southern Afghanistan\u2019s Helmand province, fighting was underway in both Nawa and Khanashin districts between Afghan troops and Taliban fighters.<\/p>\n<p>The death Tuesday marks the third U.S. combat fatality in Afghanistan this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, I guess the rumors that there is still a war going on in Afghanistan are true. More Americans have been killed in the US by terrorists this year than soldiers killed in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us a link to the Washington Post in which they report the death &hellip; <a title=\"US trooper killed in Afghanistan\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68305\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US trooper killed 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-68305","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\/68305","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=68305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}