{"id":1024,"date":"2018-12-03T10:34:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T06:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2018-12-03T10:38:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T06:08:42","slug":"us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"US Forces Retaliated, a Major Taliban commander killed in a strike in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the Taliban’s most senior commanders has been killed in a US airstrike in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Ariana News Agency-<\/strong><\/em> Mullah Abdul Manan was killed with 32 others by an airstrike on Saturday as he met local commanders and fighters in Nawzad district in Helmand province, provincial governor Mohammad Yasin Khan said.<\/p>\n

He was the “shadow governor” of Helmand province – the largest supplier of Afghanistan’s opium crop – for the insurgent group and headed up the Taliban’s southern Afghanistan command.
\nHis death was confirmed by Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid who said it was a “big loss” for the group.<\/p>\n

The US military also confirmed his death, adding that Afghan forces had gone on the offensive with US support.
\nThey had used precision airstrikes to push the Taliban to accept engaging in peace talks, he added.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Colonel Dave Butler, spokesman for US forces in Afghanistan, said: “They’re going to have trouble intensifying the fight when their fighters and leaders are under constant assault.<\/p>\n

Pictures claiming to be of Manan’s body were being circulated on social media.
\nHis death is being seen by Afghan officials as a major success because Manan commanded Taliban fighters while they steadily increased control over Helmand in the years following the end of most international combat missions in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the Taliban’s most senior commanders has been killed in a US airstrike in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_mat_hreflang_tags":[],"addvideo":"","video_duration":"","farsit":"","target":"0","top_stories":"0","top":"1"},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[226,32,255],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-politics","tag-afghanistan-war","tag-taliban","tag-us-forces"],"acf":{"myctype":"change","target":false,"top_stories":false,"top":true,"farsit":""},"yoast_head":"\nUS Forces Retaliated, a Major Taliban commander killed in a strike in Afghanistan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One of the Taliban's most senior commanders has been killed in a US airstrike in Afghanistan. Ariana News Agency- Mullah Abdul Manan was killed with 32\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"US Forces Retaliated, a Major Taliban commander killed in a strike in Afghanistan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One of the Taliban's most senior commanders has been killed in a US airstrike in Afghanistan. Ariana News Agency- Mullah Abdul Manan was killed with 32\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ariana News Agency\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-12-03T06:04:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-12-03T06:08:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/skynews-taliban-mullah-abdul-manan_4506840.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1096\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"616\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2a55fc1759fcc9a9cf7b75da257d8734\"},\"headline\":\"US Forces Retaliated, a Major Taliban commander killed in a strike in Afghanistan\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-12-03T06:04:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-12-03T06:08:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":228,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/media.ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/2018\\\/12\\\/skynews-taliban-mullah-abdul-manan_4506840.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Afghanistan war\",\"Taliban\",\"US forces\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Afghanistan\",\"Politics\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\\\/\",\"name\":\"US Forces Retaliated, a Major Taliban commander killed in a strike in Afghanistan\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/media.ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/2018\\\/12\\\/skynews-taliban-mullah-abdul-manan_4506840.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-12-03T06:04:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-12-03T06:08:42+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2a55fc1759fcc9a9cf7b75da257d8734\"},\"description\":\"One of the Taliban's most senior commanders has been killed in a US airstrike in Afghanistan. Ariana News Agency- Mullah Abdul Manan was killed with 32\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/media.ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/2018\\\/12\\\/skynews-taliban-mullah-abdul-manan_4506840.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/media.ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/2018\\\/12\\\/skynews-taliban-mullah-abdul-manan_4506840.jpg\",\"width\":1096,\"height\":616},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/afghanistan\\\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"US Forces Retaliated, a Major Taliban commander killed in a strike in Afghanistan\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ariana News Agency\",\"description\":\"Afghanistan News - Breaking News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2a55fc1759fcc9a9cf7b75da257d8734\",\"name\":\"Admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/621162a72ad45d45b191510a866bb6bc3c1f2361186666783d0f69b77edbaa2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/621162a72ad45d45b191510a866bb6bc3c1f2361186666783d0f69b77edbaa2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/621162a72ad45d45b191510a866bb6bc3c1f2361186666783d0f69b77edbaa2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Admin\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"US Forces Retaliated, a Major Taliban commander killed in a strike in Afghanistan","description":"One of the Taliban's most senior commanders has been killed in a US airstrike in Afghanistan. Ariana News Agency- Mullah Abdul Manan was killed with 32","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"US Forces Retaliated, a Major Taliban commander killed in a strike in Afghanistan","og_description":"One of the Taliban's most senior commanders has been killed in a US airstrike in Afghanistan. Ariana News Agency- Mullah Abdul Manan was killed with 32","og_url":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\/","og_site_name":"Ariana News Agency","article_published_time":"2018-12-03T06:04:08+00:00","article_modified_time":"2018-12-03T06:08:42+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1096,"height":616,"url":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/skynews-taliban-mullah-abdul-manan_4506840.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Admin","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\/"},"author":{"name":"Admin","@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2a55fc1759fcc9a9cf7b75da257d8734"},"headline":"US Forces Retaliated, a Major Taliban commander killed in a strike in Afghanistan","datePublished":"2018-12-03T06:04:08+00:00","dateModified":"2018-12-03T06:08:42+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\/"},"wordCount":228,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/media.ariananews.co\/en\/2018\/12\/skynews-taliban-mullah-abdul-manan_4506840.jpg","keywords":["Afghanistan war","Taliban","US forces"],"articleSection":["Afghanistan","Politics"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\/","url":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\/","name":"US Forces Retaliated, a Major Taliban commander killed in a strike in Afghanistan","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/media.ariananews.co\/en\/2018\/12\/skynews-taliban-mullah-abdul-manan_4506840.jpg","datePublished":"2018-12-03T06:04:08+00:00","dateModified":"2018-12-03T06:08:42+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2a55fc1759fcc9a9cf7b75da257d8734"},"description":"One of the Taliban's most senior commanders has been killed in a US airstrike in Afghanistan. Ariana News Agency- Mullah Abdul Manan was killed with 32","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/media.ariananews.co\/en\/2018\/12\/skynews-taliban-mullah-abdul-manan_4506840.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/media.ariananews.co\/en\/2018\/12\/skynews-taliban-mullah-abdul-manan_4506840.jpg","width":1096,"height":616},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/afghanistan\/us-forces-retaliated-a-major-taliban-commander-killed-in-us-air-strike-in-afghanistan\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"US Forces Retaliated, a Major Taliban commander killed in a strike in Afghanistan"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/","name":"Ariana News Agency","description":"Afghanistan News - Breaking News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2a55fc1759fcc9a9cf7b75da257d8734","name":"Admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/621162a72ad45d45b191510a866bb6bc3c1f2361186666783d0f69b77edbaa2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/621162a72ad45d45b191510a866bb6bc3c1f2361186666783d0f69b77edbaa2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/621162a72ad45d45b191510a866bb6bc3c1f2361186666783d0f69b77edbaa2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Admin"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/media\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}