{"id":572299,"date":"2023-04-27T10:54:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T05:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=572299"},"modified":"2023-04-27T11:37:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T06:07:44","slug":"taliban-kill-mastermind-of-suicide-bombing-at-kabul-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/taliban-kill-mastermind-of-suicide-bombing-at-kabul-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban kill mastermind of suicide bombing at Kabul airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A ground assault by the Taliban killed the Islamic State militant who spearheaded the August 2021 suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that left 13 US troops and about 170 Afghans dead during the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan, US officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, neither the US \u2014 nor apparently the Taliban \u2014 were aware that the mastermind was dead.<\/p>\n<p>He was killed during a series of battles early this month in southern Afghanistan between the Taliban and the Islamic State group\u2019s affiliate, according to several officials.<\/p>\n<p>But in the past few days, US intelligence confirmed \u201cwith high confidence\u201d that the Islamic State leader had been killed, a senior administration official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ground assault by the Taliban killed the Islamic State militant who spearheaded the August 2021 suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that left 13 US troops and about 170 Afghans dead during the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan, US officials said Tuesday. Initially, neither the US \u2014 nor apparently the Taliban \u2014 were aware that the mastermind was dead. He was killed during a series of battles early this month in southern Afghanistan between the Taliban and the Islamic State group\u2019s affiliate, according to several officials. But in the past few days, US intelligence confirmed \u201cwith high confidence\u201d that [&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":[224,130,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572299","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=572299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}