{"id":10856,"date":"2011-01-18T14:43:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T12:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=10856"},"modified":"2011-01-18T14:59:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T12:59:04","slug":"50-taliban-militans-join-the-government-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/50-taliban-militans-join-the-government-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Taliban militans join the government forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Taliban.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10857\" title=\"Afghan Militias\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Taliban.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Taliban.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Taliban-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Taliban-280x186.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a>50 Taliban militant fighters laid down their arms and join the government military, Afghan officials say.<\/p>\n<p>Kunduz province police chief Abdul Rahman Sayedkhaili says 10 or 15 militants at a time have switched sides in recent months, but that on Tuesday, 50 Taliban fighters joined pro-government forces.<\/p>\n<p>He says the Taliban \u2014 from Iman Sahib district \u2014 were being heavily pressured by Afghan and coalition forces.<\/p>\n<p>Despite of Afghanistan province police chief \u00a0commentments, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid denied report of Taliban switching sides.<\/p>\n<p>He says that even if they did, they might be just doing it temporarily because of the onset of winter, or as part of their own war tactics. He says more than 3,000 Taliban are actively fighting in the north.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 52)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50 Taliban militant fighters laid down their arms and join the government military, Afghan officials say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":10857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,101,14],"tags":[2200,14429,14430,256,14431],"class_list":["post-10856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-politics","category-world","tag-afghan","tag-afghan-fighters","tag-military-forces","tag-taliban","tag-taliban-fighters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}