{"id":11862,"date":"2017-10-22T03:14:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T01:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/22\/gunmen-kill-13-niger-police-in-attack-near-mali-border\/"},"modified":"2017-10-22T03:14:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T01:14:18","slug":"gunmen-kill-13-niger-police-in-attack-near-mali-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=11862","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen kill 13 Niger police in attack near Mali border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attack happened close to where four US soldiers were killed in ambush on 4 October that highlighted US counter-terrorism missionGunmen on pick-up trucks and motorcycles coming from Mali killed 13 gendarmes and wounded five more in an attack on their base in western Niger, security sources said on Saturday. The village is a few dozen kilometres from where militants killed four US soldiers in an ambush on 4 October that has thrown a spotlight on a US counter-terrorism mission in Niger, a country that straddles an expanse of the Sahara. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/oct\/22\/gunmen-kill-13-niger-police-in-attack-near-mali-border\" target=\"_blank\">Gunmen kill 13 Niger police in attack near Mali border<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attack happened close to where four US soldiers were killed in ambush on 4 October that highlighted US counter-terrorism missionGunmen on pick-up trucks and motorcycles coming from Mali killed 13 gendarmes and wounded five more in an attack on their base in western Niger, security sources said on Saturday. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}