{"id":400607,"date":"2020-09-08T10:23:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T07:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=400607"},"modified":"2020-09-08T10:23:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T07:23:21","slug":"14-al-shabaab-militants-killed-in-heavy-battle-in-balad-town-in-middle-shabelle-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/14-al-shabaab-militants-killed-in-heavy-battle-in-balad-town-in-middle-shabelle-region\/","title":{"rendered":"14 Al-Shabaab militants killed in heavy battle in Bal&#8217;ad town in middle Shabelle region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu(SONNA)-At least 14 Al-Shabaab militants were on Tuesday morning killed and several others injured after heavy fighting between the Somali National Army and the group fighters in Bal&#8217;ad town in middle Shabelle region, about 30 Km north of Mogadishu, SONNA reported.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman of the Somali Ministry of Information, Ismael Mukhtar Omar told\u00a0<strong>Somali National News Agency\u00a0<\/strong>that one SNA soldier was killed and seven others injured during the battle in and outside the town early in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;SNA forces foiled terrorist militants&#8217; attempt to overrun key administrative positions of Bal&#8217;ad town in middle Shabelle region early this morning, Our SNA forces killed 14 Al-Shabaab militants and injured several others and pushed them back&#8221;, Mr. Omar said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the situation of the battled town, Bal&#8217;ad is now calm and under full control of Somali National Army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu(SONNA)-At least 14 Al-Shabaab militants were on Tuesday morning killed and several others injured after heavy fighting between the Somali National Army and the group fighters in Bal&#8217;ad town in middle Shabelle region, about 30 Km north of Mogadishu, SONNA reported. Spokesman of the Somali Ministry of Information, Ismael Mukhtar Omar told\u00a0Somali National News Agency\u00a0that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":400608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400609,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400607\/revisions\/400609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}