{"id":14895,"date":"2026-01-02T03:18:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=14895"},"modified":"2026-01-02T03:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:48:25","slug":"drone-crash-in-the-mountains-of-maidan-wardak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/drone-crash-in-the-mountains-of-maidan-wardak\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone Crash in the Mountains of Maidan Wardak."},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14911\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Amaidannne.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Amaidannne.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Amaidannne-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Amaidannne-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Amaidannne-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Amaidannne-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Drone Crash in the Mountains of Maidan Wardak.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Local sources report that a drone has crashed in the mountainous areas surrounding Maidan Shahr, the capital of Maidan Wardak Province.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>\u00a0The incident occurred on Thursday, 1 January 2026, and has drawn the attention of local sources and media outlets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Video footage shared by these sources shows the drone having fallen into a snow-covered area, with several armed individuals apparently Taliban fighters present around the crash site.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>\u00a0However, no official or verified information has so far been released regarding the drone\u2019s technical specifications.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to the reports, it remains unclear how the drone crashed or which country or institution it belonged to.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>\u00a0Previously, local sources had repeatedly reported drone patrols over several Afghan provinces, a development that has consistently been accompanied by ambiguity and speculation.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drone Crash in the Mountains of Maidan Wardak. Local sources report that a drone has crashed in the mountainous areas surrounding Maidan Shahr, the capital of Maidan Wardak Province. \u00a0The incident occurred on Thursday, 1 January 2026, and has drawn the attention of local sources and media outlets. Video footage shared by these sources shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14895","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\/14895","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=14895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14913,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14895\/revisions\/14913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}