{"id":8814,"date":"2017-07-31T11:04:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T11:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=8814"},"modified":"2017-07-31T11:04:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T11:04:02","slug":"suicide-bomber-attack-near-iraqi-embassy-in-afghan-capital-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2017\/07\/31\/suicide-bomber-attack-near-iraqi-embassy-in-afghan-capital-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide bomber attack near Iraqi embassy in Afghan capital Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan security forces battled gunmen near a police compound and the nearby Iraqi embassy in Kabul on Monday following a suicide bombing, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The target of the attack was not immediately clear but police on the scene said that the gunmen appeared to have taken cover in the embassy building in a business district of the city, from where smoke could be seen rising.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Security officials said there appeared to be five gunmen involved but there was no immediate word on any casualties.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The attack comes a week after at least 35 people were killed in a suicide attack on government workers in Kabul and underlines the precarious security in Afghanistan as the U.S. administration considers an overhaul of its policy in the region.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s attack was claimed by the Taliban. A spokesman for the insurgent movement said he had no immediate information on Monday&#8217;s attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan security forces battled gunmen near a police compound and the nearby Iraqi embassy in Kabul on Monday following a suicide bombing, officials said. &nbsp; The target of the attack was not immediately clear but police on the scene said that the gunmen appeared to have taken cover in the embassy building in a business district of the city, from where smoke could be seen rising. &nbsp; Security officials said there appeared to be five gunmen involved but there was no immediate word on any casualties. &nbsp; The attack comes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8816,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814\/revisions\/8816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}