{"id":53266,"date":"2023-03-09T20:10:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T11:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/09\/taliban-governor-known-for-fighting-islamic-state-killed-in-suicide-attack"},"modified":"2023-03-09T20:10:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T11:10:27","slug":"taliban-governor-known-for-fighting-islamic-state-killed-in-suicide-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53266","title":{"rendered":"Taliban governor known for fighting Islamic State killed in suicide attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammad Dawood Muzammil one of the highest-ranking figures killed as Afghan security situation deteriorates<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban governor of Afghanistan\u2019s Balkh province, known for fighting Islamic State (IS) jihadists, was killed in a suicide attack at his office on Thursday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The killing, a day after he met top government officials visiting from Kabul, makes Mohammad Dawood Muzammil one of the highest-ranking figures killed since the Taliban stormed back to power in 2021.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/09\/taliban-governor-known-for-fighting-islamic-state-killed-in-suicide-attack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammad Dawood Muzammil one of the highest-ranking figures killed as Afghan security situation deterioratesThe Taliban governor of Afghanistan\u2019s Balkh province, known for fighting Islamic State (IS) jihadists, was killed in a suicide attack at his off&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3625,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-islamic-state","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53266","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\/3625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53267,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53266\/revisions\/53267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}