{"id":13027,"date":"2025-08-20T08:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=13027"},"modified":"2025-08-20T08:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:25:12","slug":"a-farmer-killed-by-the-taliban-in-barakah-baghlan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/a-farmer-killed-by-the-taliban-in-barakah-baghlan\/","title":{"rendered":"A farmer killed by the Taliban in Barakah, Baghlan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13017\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/baghlan-baraka.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>A farmer killed by the Taliban in Barakah, Baghlan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Local sources in Baghlan province say that Taliban-affiliated individuals have killed a farmer in the Barakah district of the province.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to sources, on Friday, 15 August 2025, Mirza, son of Sultan Mohammad, a resident of Mangalkhel village, was shot and killed by Taliban members when he went to his agricultural land in the Badam Dara area to harvest wheat.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Local residents say that the Taliban in this area threaten and arrest people under various pretexts, and that farmers are under the most pressure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>There have been previous reports of civilians, especially farmers, being killed by members of this group in the northern provinces.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Taliban\u2019s targeted killings and violent behavior against civilians, instead of providing security, have spread an atmosphere of fear and distrust among the local community.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Taliban have not yet commented on this.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A farmer killed by the Taliban in Barakah, Baghlan. Local sources in Baghlan province say that Taliban-affiliated individuals have killed a farmer in the Barakah district of the province. According to sources, on Friday, 15 August 2025, Mirza, son of Sultan Mohammad, a resident of Mangalkhel village, was shot and killed by Taliban members when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13028,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13027\/revisions\/13028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}