{"id":103246,"date":"2020-03-04T07:02:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T15:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/u-s-carries-out-first-airstrike-on-taliban-since-doha-deal"},"modified":"2020-03-04T07:02:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T15:02:25","slug":"u-s-carries-out-first-airstrike-on-taliban-since-doha-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/u-s-carries-out-first-airstrike-on-taliban-since-doha-deal","title":{"rendered":"U.S. carries out first airstrike on Taliban since Doha deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-carries-out-first-airstrike-on-taliban-since-doha-deal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>KABUL \u2014 The United States conducted an airstrike on Wednesday against Taliban fighters in Afghanistan\u2019s southern Helmand province, a U.S. forces spokesman said, the first such attack since a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/taliban-sign-landmark-agreement-bid-end-america-s-longest-war-n1145166\" target=\"_blank\">troop withdrawal agreement<\/a> was signed between the two sides on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban fighters were \u201cwere actively attacking an [Afghan National Security Forces] checkpoint. This was a defensive strike to disrupt the attack,\u201d said Colonel Sonny Leggett, a spokesman for the U.S. Forces in Afghanistan in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>He said Washington was committed to peace but would defend Afghan forces if needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL \u2014 The United States conducted an airstrike on Wednesday against Taliban fighters in Afghanistan\u2019s southern Helmand province, a U.S. forces spokesman said, the first such attack since a troop withdrawal agreement was signed between the two sides on Saturday. The Taliban fighters were \u201cwere actively attacking an [Afghan National Security Forces] checkpoint. This was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}