{"id":3313,"date":"2019-03-24T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=3313"},"modified":"2019-03-24T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T17:23:00","slug":"afghanistan-conflict-two-us-soldiers-killed-on-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2019\/03\/24\/afghanistan-conflict-two-us-soldiers-killed-on-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan conflict: Two US soldiers killed on operation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two US service members have been killed while serving in Afghanistan, Nato says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were killed on Friday but the names of the victims will be withheld until 24 hours after their families have been notified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deaths bring the number of US service members killed in Afghanistan this year to four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It comes amid negotiations between the US and Taliban insurgents to end the 17-year conflict in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The top US envoy seeking to broker peace in Afghanistan met the Taliban&#8217;s co-founder for the first time in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the negotiations, the country is more dangerous than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-47347958\">More civilians were killed last year in Afghanistan<\/a>&nbsp;than at any time since records have been kept, with 3,804 civilians losing their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least six people were killed in three bomb explosions in the the capital, Kabul, on Thursday during Persian New Year celebrations. The attacks were claimed by the Islamic State group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thousands of Nato-led troops remain in Afghanistan supporting government efforts against the Taliban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Trump is reportedly considering withdrawing half of the 14,000 American troops currently serving, which make up the bulk of the force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-47666239\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-47666239<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two US service members have been killed while serving in Afghanistan, Nato says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3314,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions\/3314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}