{"id":50727,"date":"2015-07-10T04:20:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T04:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_cameroon_repulses_boko_haram_attack_kills_three_militants\/"},"modified":"2015-07-10T04:20:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T04:20:42","slug":"reuters_cameroon_repulses_boko_haram_attack_kills_three_militants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50727","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Cameroon repulses Boko Haram attack, kills three militants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroon&#8217;s army has repulsed an attack by Boko Haram and killed three of the Nigerian Islamist militants in heavy fighting in the Far North region of the country, a Cameroon government spokesman said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The attack represented a change of tactics by the militants following a series of battlefield defeats this year in which they have lost territory to a regional force that comprises Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, spokesman Issa Tchiroma said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Early Tuesday morning around 3.:40 a.m. (0140 GMT) an enemy column in four-wheel drive vehicles opened fire on positions held by our defense forces,&#8221; he said of the attack in Bodo town.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/07\/09\/us-nigeria-violence-cameroon-idUSKCN0PJ2XD20150709\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroon&#8217;s army has repulsed an attack by Boko Haram and killed three of the Nigerian Islamist militants in heavy fighting in the Far North region of the country, a Cameroon government spokesman said on Thursday. The attack represented a change<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50727\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,202,548,143,168,144,426,327,155,151,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-cameroon","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-islam","category-nigeria","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}