{"id":46092,"date":"2025-04-08T17:03:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=46092"},"modified":"2025-04-08T17:03:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:03:24","slug":"pakistani-security-forces-kill-9-militants-in-a-raid-near-the-afghan-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/pakistani-security-forces-kill-9-militants-in-a-raid-near-the-afghan-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani Security Forces Kill 9 Militants in a Raid near the Afghan Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani security forces raided a militant hideout in the restive northwest near the Afghan border, killing nine militants, the military said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The military said in a statement that a high-value militant Shireen was among those insurgents killed in Dera Ismail Khan, a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.<\/p>\n<p>All the militants who were killed were the &#8220;Khwarij,\u201d a phrase the government uses for Pakistani Taliban, and Shireen was behind last month&#8217;s killing of an army Capt. Hasnain Akhtar in a shootout in the region, the military said.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani Taliban are known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP. The group is an ally of the Taliban in Afghanistan and has been emboldened since the Afghan Taliban seized power there in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has witnessed a surge in militant attacks, most claimed by TTP.<\/p>\n<p>Though Pakistan often conducts operations against the militants, the latest raid in Dera Ismail Khan came a day after troops killed eight militants in the northwestern North Waziristan district as they tried to cross the border with Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani security forces raided a militant hideout in the restive northwest near the Afghan border, killing nine militants, the military said Monday. The military said in a statement that a high-value militant Shireen was among those insurgents killed in Dera Ismail Khan, a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. All the militants who were killed were &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46092","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=46092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46093,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46092\/revisions\/46093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}