{"id":4232,"date":"2014-07-18T10:45:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T03:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4232"},"modified":"2014-07-18T10:45:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T03:45:55","slug":"tunisian-soldiers-killed-in-militant-attack-near-algerian-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisian-soldiers-killed-in-militant-attack-near-algerian-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisian soldiers killed in militant attack near Algerian border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 14 Tunisian soldiers have been killed in a militant attack near the Algerian border with at least 20 others wounded, the defence ministry says.<\/p>\n<p>They say gunmen, armed with rocket-propelled grenades and rifles, raided two checkpoints near Mount Chaambi.<\/p>\n<p>It is reportedly the heaviest death toll registered by the army since independence in 1956.<\/p>\n<p>The Tunisian army has been waging a crackdown on militants operating in the mountainous region over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Islamist militants, including fighters linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb (AQIM), are believed to be hiding out in the border region&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tunisia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28341318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 14 Tunisian soldiers have been killed in a militant attack near the Algerian border with at least 20 others wounded, the defence ministry says. They say gunmen, armed with rocket-propelled grenades and rifles, raided two checkpoints near Mount Chaambi. It is reportedly the heaviest death toll registered by the army since independence in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,497,2907,2906,357,658,2903,2905,257,4694,2904,254,4703,653,2823],"class_list":["post-4232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-al-qaeda","tag-aqim","tag-islamic-mahgreb","tag-islamist","tag-islamist-militants","tag-killed-in-a-militant-attack","tag-mount-chaambi","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-rocket-propelled-grenades-and-rifles","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisian-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}