Ariana News Agency-\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Abdul Rahman, a police officer in the eastern Khost province, says Sultan Mahmoud Khirkhowa, a journalist with the local Zhman TV and radio, was killed Friday by two men on a motorcycle who opened fire on his vehicle.<\/p>\n No one immediately claimed responsibility. Both the Taliban and the Islamic State group are active in the area. IS has targeted journalists in the past and publicly threatened to kill them.<\/p>\n Last year 17 journalists and media workers were killed in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police say a local TV journalist was shot and killed in eastern Afghanistan, less than a week after a journalist in the southern Helmand province was wounded by a sticky bomb attached to his car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2399,"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":"1","top":"0"},"categories":[2,306],"tags":[39,194,259],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-human-rights","tag-afghanistan","tag-human-rights","tag-journalism"],"acf":{"myctype":"change","target":false,"top_stories":true,"top":false,"farsit":""},"yoast_head":"\n