{"id":432900,"date":"2021-08-31T08:24:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T02:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=432900"},"modified":"2021-08-31T09:01:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T03:31:40","slug":"islamic-state-claims-responsibility-for-rocket-attack-on-kabul-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/islamic-state-claims-responsibility-for-rocket-attack-on-kabul-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic State claims responsibility for rocket attack on Kabul airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Islamic State group&#8217;s affiliate in Afghanistan has claimed responsibility for Monday&#8217;s rocket attack in Kabul, saying it fired at least six Katyusha rockets at the airport in the Afghan capital.<\/p>\n<p>The rockets stuck a neighbourhood close to the Kabul airport. The claim of responsibility was carried by the militant group&#8217;s media arm, the Aamaq news agency. It didn&#8217;t provide further details. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military said five rockets targeted the airport on Monday morning and that U.S. forces on the airfield used a defensive system to intercept them.<\/p>\n<p>The attack did not halt the steady stream of U.S. military C-17 cargo jets taking off and landing at Hamid Karzai International Airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Islamic State group&#8217;s affiliate in Afghanistan has claimed responsibility for Monday&#8217;s rocket attack in Kabul, saying it fired at least six Katyusha rockets at the airport in the Afghan capital. The rockets stuck a neighbourhood close to the Kabul airport. The claim of responsibility was carried by the militant group&#8217;s media arm, the Aamaq news agency. It didn&#8217;t provide further details. The U.S. military said five rockets targeted the airport on Monday morning and that U.S. forces on the airfield used a defensive system to intercept them. The attack did not halt the steady stream of U.S. military C-17 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}