{"id":14647,"date":"2025-12-15T00:08:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=14647"},"modified":"2025-12-15T00:08:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:38:39","slug":"sources-taliban-shoot-down-military-drone-in-kandahar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/sources-taliban-shoot-down-military-drone-in-kandahar\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Taliban Shoot Down Military Drone in Kandahar."},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14648\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/atalibedd-pahpadd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/atalibedd-pahpadd.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/atalibedd-pahpadd-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/atalibedd-pahpadd-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/atalibedd-pahpadd-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/atalibedd-pahpadd-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Sources: Taliban Shoot Down Military Drone in Kandahar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Sources report that a military reconnaissance drone was shot down in Registan District, Kandahar Province.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The drone, reportedly capable of performing reconnaissance and attack missions, lost control after being targeted by Taliban forces. Official details regarding the cause of the crash and the exact identity of the drone have not yet been released.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to the reports, the wreckage of the drone was transported to a secure location for technical and expert examination.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong> This action highlights the Taliban\u2019s focused effort on collecting advanced military equipment, although no information has been disclosed on how the drone was targeted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong> Registan District, due to its border location adjacent to Pakistan, has previously been a site of drone activity and surveillance operations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>This incident may indicate an enhancement of the Taliban\u2019s defensive capabilities and their possible access to advanced anti-drone equipment. It could also shift the balance of power in border areas and underline the Taliban\u2019s growing air defense capabilities.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources: Taliban Shoot Down Military Drone in Kandahar. Sources report that a military reconnaissance drone was shot down in Registan District, Kandahar Province. The drone, reportedly capable of performing reconnaissance and attack missions, lost control after being targeted by Taliban forces. Official details regarding the cause of the crash and the exact identity of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14647","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\/14647","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=14647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14649,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647\/revisions\/14649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}