{"id":36097,"date":"2021-08-28T21:09:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T12:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/28\/afghanistan-drone-strike-targeted-islamic-state-planner-in-car-us-says"},"modified":"2021-08-28T21:09:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T12:09:53","slug":"afghanistan-drone-strike-targeted-islamic-state-planner-in-car-us-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36097","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan drone strike targeted Islamic State \u2018planner\u2019 in car, US says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US says there were no known civilian casualties but community elder claims women and children among victims<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/28\/afghanistan-live-news-uks-ability-to-process-evacuations-extremely-reduced-as-us-on-alert-for-further-attacks\">Afghanistan latest news \u2013 live<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US drone strike in Afghanistan targeted a mid-level \u201cplanner\u201d from the Islamic State\u2019s local affiliate who was travelling in a car with one other person near the eastern city of Jalalabad, US official sources said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The strike came two days after Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP) claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing outside Kabul airport, as western forces running the airlift braced for more attacks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/28\/afghanistan-drone-strike-targeted-islamic-state-planner-in-car-us-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US says there were no known civilian casualties but community elder claims women and children among victimsAfghanistan latest news \u2013 liveThe US drone strike in Afghanistan targeted a mid-level \u201cplanner\u201d from the Islamic State\u2019s local affiliate who was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"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":[46,471,61,44,45,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-islamic-state","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36097","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\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36098,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36097\/revisions\/36098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}