{"id":432939,"date":"2021-08-31T08:28:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T02:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=432939"},"modified":"2021-08-31T09:25:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T03:55:29","slug":"us-airstrike-hits-suicide-bomber-targeting-airport-taliban-spokesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-airstrike-hits-suicide-bomber-targeting-airport-taliban-spokesman\/","title":{"rendered":"US airstrike hits suicide bomber targeting airport: Taliban spokesman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Taliban spokesman says a US military airstrike has targeted a suicide bomber in a vehicle who wanted to target the Kabul international airport amid the American evacuation there.<\/p>\n<p>Zabihullah Mujahid said in a message to journalists that the strike happened Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>US military officials could not be immediately reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened as police said a rocket struck a neighbourhood just northwest of Kabul&#8217;s international airport Sunday as the US evacuation there winds down following the Taliban&#8217;s lightning takeover of the country, killing a child. The two strikes initially appeared to be separate incidents, though information on both remained scarce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Taliban spokesman says a US military airstrike has targeted a suicide bomber in a vehicle who wanted to target the Kabul international airport amid the American evacuation there. Zabihullah Mujahid said in a message to journalists that the strike happened Sunday. US military officials could not be immediately reached for comment. The incident happened as police said a rocket struck a neighbourhood just northwest of Kabul&#8217;s international airport Sunday as the US evacuation there winds down following the Taliban&#8217;s lightning takeover of the country, killing a child. The two strikes initially appeared to be separate incidents, though information on [&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-432939","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\/432939","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=432939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}