{"id":127011,"date":"2015-06-22T07:25:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T07:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=127011"},"modified":"2015-06-22T07:25:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T07:25:25","slug":"afghanistan-parliament-attacked-in-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=127011","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Parliament attacked in Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The Taliban have carried out a co-ordinated attack on the Afghan parliament in the capital, Kabul, where heavy fighting is still going on.<\/p>\n<p>Attackers detonated a huge car bomb outside the building, before racing into parliament itself, reports say.<\/p>\n<p>Police are evacuating the premises, while trying to fight off the attackers.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban say they are carrying out the attack to coincide with a vote to endorse a new defence minister.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures on social media showed parliament full of smoke and people running for cover.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened as new Defence Minister Massoom Stanekzai was being introduced to MPs, who need to endorse him.<\/p>\n<p>Local media report another explosion in the Dahmazang area of Kabul city.<\/p>\n<p>Television was broadcasting live from the building when the explosion struck and MPs were seen fleeing the building.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban have carried out a co-ordinated attack on the Afghan parliament in the capital, Kabul, where heavy fighting is still going on. Attackers detonated a huge car bomb outside the building, before racing into parliament itself, reports say. Police are evacuating the premises, while trying to fight off the attackers. The Taliban say they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":127013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-127011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}