{"id":80257,"date":"2018-06-30T11:09:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T15:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80257"},"modified":"2018-06-30T11:09:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T15:09:37","slug":"us-resumes-airstrikes-after-eid-al-fitr-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80257","title":{"rendered":"US resumes airstrikes after Eid al-Fitr ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US aircraft in Afghanistan resumed airstrikes against Taliban emplacements when the ten-day ceasefire during Eid al-Fitr ended today, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us-strikes-more-than-20-taliban-targets-after-cease-fire-ends-1.535517\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. forces in Afghanistan conducted more than 20 airstrikes against the Taliban on Saturday after an unprecedented unilateral cease-fire ended.<\/p>\n<p>The strikes took place in Ghazni, Helmand and Uruzgan provinces, according to Army Lt. Col. Martin O\u2019Donnell, spokesman for U.S. Forces-Afghanistan. The Afghan Air Force also conducted at least two independent strikes since the midnight end of the cease-fire, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Afghan and U.S. forces had no choice but to resume fighting after the Taliban chose not to extend a short cease-fire it declared earlier this month, said Gen. Mohammad Radmanish, acting spokesman for the Defense Ministry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ceasefire was not without incidences. US forces conducted five self-defense strikes during the ceasefire. The Afghan government forces were forced to defend themselves more often;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Speaking to Pentagon reporters from Kabul earlier this week, Air Force Brig. Gen. Lance Bunch, assistant deputy air commander for USFOR-A said the Afghans carried out 38 self-defense strikes of their own against Taliban targets during the cease-fire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US aircraft in Afghanistan resumed airstrikes against Taliban emplacements when the ten-day ceasefire during Eid al-Fitr &hellip; <a title=\"US resumes airstrikes after Eid al-Fitr ceasefire\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80257\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US resumes airstrikes after Eid al-Fitr ceasefire<\/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-80257","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\/80257","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=80257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}