{"id":11405,"date":"2024-01-14T21:21:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T21:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=11405"},"modified":"2024-01-14T21:21:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T21:21:56","slug":"afghanistan-suicide-bomber-targets-government-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/14\/afghanistan-suicide-bomber-targets-government-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: Suicide Bomber Targets Government Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A suicide bomber targeted the provincial governor\u2019s office in western Afghanistan on Sunday and wounded three security guards, said a Taliban official.<br \/>\nThe attacker detonated his suicide vest as he was shot by security guards while trying to enter inside the governor\u2019s compound in Zaranj, the capital of Nimroz province, Abdul Mateen Qani, the spokesman for the Taliban\u2019s interior minister, wrote on X, formerly Twitter.<br \/>\nNo one has immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Islamic State group\u2019s affiliate has increased attacks in capital Kabul as well as in other parts of the country since the beginning of the year.<br \/>\nThe IS group has carried out major assaults on schools, hospitals and mosques and also has attacked Shia areas across the country in the last few years. It\u2019s been a major rival of the Taliban since the latter seized control of Afghanistan in August 2021, as US and other troops withdrew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed A suicide bomber targeted the provincial governor\u2019s office in western Afghanistan on Sunday and wounded three security guards, said a Taliban official. The attacker detonated his suicide vest as he was shot by security guards while trying to enter inside the governor\u2019s compound in Zaranj, the capital of Nimroz province, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11407,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11405\/revisions\/11407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}