{"id":616567,"date":"2021-08-06T17:22:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T21:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=616567"},"modified":"2021-08-06T17:22:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T21:22:51","slug":"taliban-kills-top-afghan-govt-spokesman-takes-control-of-provincial-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taliban-kills-top-afghan-govt-spokesman-takes-control-of-provincial-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban kills top Afghan govt. spokesman, takes control of provincial capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftaliban-kills-top-afghan-govt-spokesman-takes-control-of-provincial-capital%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=616567&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2484704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2484704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afghan Taliban militants and villagers attend a gathering. (NOORULLAH SHIRZADA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 2:10 PM PT \u2013 Friday, August 6, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The Taliban has continued to gain strength as it assassinated a top Afghan government spokesman and has taken control of a key region. Reports on Friday said the terror group took responsibility for murdering the director of Afghanistan\u2019s Government Information Media Center.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban also took control of a provincial capital, which is the first since the U.S. troop withdrawal. Witnesses said the state media director was gunned down while driving his car during Friday prayers.<\/p>\n<p>Mahmood Sharifi, an eyewitness, said Dawa Khan Menapal got out of his armored vehicle and then moved into a taxi where he believed both him and the driver were shot. \u201cPeople who were there to attend prayers tried to stop the attackers, but the attackers said \u2018let us go or we will shoot you too.\u2019 When people saw the weapons, they got out of their way,\u201d said Sharifi.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are saddened &amp; disgusted by the Taliban\u2019s targeted killing of Dawa Khan Meenapal, a friend and colleague, whose career was focused on providing truthful information to all Afghans about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Afghanistan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Afghanistan<\/a>. These murders are an affront to Afghans\u2019 human rights &amp; freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires Ross Wilson (@USAmbKabul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USAmbKabul\/status\/1423600851659202562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>U.S. Ambassador Ross Wilson condemned the killing, saying the victim was a friend and colleague who dedicated his life to providing truthful information to all Afghans.<\/p>\n<p>The slaying came just days after the unsuccessful bombing assassination attempt on Afghanistan\u2019s acting defense minister, which killed eight people and wounded 20. In the meantime, the Taliban has taken over more than half of Afghanistan\u2019s 421 districts.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/report-kamala-harris-holds-crisis-dinner-amid-negative-press\/\">Report: Kamala Harris Holds Crisis Dinner Amid Negative Press<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan Taliban militants and villagers attend a gathering. (NOORULLAH SHIRZADA\/AFP via Getty Images) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 2:10 PM PT \u2013 Friday, August 6, 2021 The Taliban has continued to gain strength &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}