{"id":14093,"date":"2020-02-09T15:29:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T06:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/09\/insider-attack-by-afghan-soldier-kills-two-us-troops"},"modified":"2020-02-09T15:29:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T06:29:45","slug":"insider-attack-by-afghan-soldier-kills-two-us-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14093","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Insider attack&#8217; by Afghan soldier kills two US troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shooter had argued with US forces before opening fire and then being killed, says Afghan official<\/p>\n<p>Two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\">US<\/a> soldiers were killed and six wounded in a so-called insider attack in eastern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/afghanistan\">Afghanistan<\/a>\u2019s Nangarhar province when an Afghan soldier in uniform opened fire late on Saturday, the US military said.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the Nangarhar Provincial Council, Ajmal Omer, said the gunman was killed. <\/p>\n<p>There have been numerous attacks by Afghan national army soldiers on their allied partners over the 18 years of Afghanistan\u2019s protracted war.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/09\/insider-attack-by-afghan-soldier-kills-two-us-troops\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shooter had argued with US forces before opening fire and then being killed, says Afghan officialTwo US soldiers were killed and six wounded in a so-called insider attack in eastern Afghanistan\u2019s Nangarhar province when an Afghan soldier in uniform ope&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,61,473,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-military","category-us-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14094,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14093\/revisions\/14094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}