{"id":13437,"date":"2025-09-18T07:53:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T03:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=13437"},"modified":"2025-09-18T07:53:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T03:23:27","slug":"16-casualties-and-three-rangers-burned-two-taliban-commanders-in-badakhshan-opened-fire-on-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/16-casualties-and-three-rangers-burned-two-taliban-commanders-in-badakhshan-opened-fire-on-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"16 casualties and three rangers burned; Two Taliban commanders in Badakhshan opened fire on each other"},"content":{"rendered":"

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16 casualties and three rangers burned; Two Taliban commanders in Badakhshan opened fire on each other.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Local sources in Badakhshan say that on the evening of Wednesday, September 17, a fierce clash between two Taliban commanders in the Warduj district of the province left one dead and 15 wounded.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The clash took place between Baba Jan, the Taliban security commander in Zibak district, and Zaheer, the commander of a Taliban battalion in Ishkashim.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to sources, both commanders have more than 200 armed fighters and light and heavy weapons were used in the clash.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a result, three Ranger vehicles were set on fire and serious damage was caused to both sides. The clash began with a dispute over pasture between residents of the villages of “Ghanio” and “Akhshira” and escalated into a large-scale armed clash between the two commanders.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This incident occurred at a time when Badakhshan province has recently witnessed increased insecurity and intra-Taliban clashes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sources confirm that the Taliban have sent forces to the area from Faizabad, the capital of Badakhshan province, to contain the conflict.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

16 casualties and three rangers burned; Two Taliban commanders in Badakhshan opened fire on each other. Local sources in Badakhshan say that on the evening of Wednesday, September 17, a fierce clash between two Taliban commanders in the Warduj district of the province left one dead and 15 wounded. The clash took place between Baba […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13437","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\/13437","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=13437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13447,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13437\/revisions\/13447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}