{"id":14965,"date":"2026-01-06T04:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=14965"},"modified":"2026-01-06T04:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:45:10","slug":"armed-clash-in-kunduz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/armed-clash-in-kunduz\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed Clash in Kunduz."},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14969\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/akundoqzd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/akundoqzd.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/akundoqzd-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/akundoqzd-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/akundoqzd-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/akundoqzd-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Armed Clash in Kunduz.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Local sources in Kunduz Province reported an armed clash between unknown gunmen and Taliban fighters on Monday, 5 January 2026, at around 8:30 p.m. local time in the Samti Siaf area of Kunduz City.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The disturbance began with an explosion, followed by intermittent fighting around checkpoints. Taliban forces responded with scattered gunfire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>No confirmed information about casualties has been released.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>This incident comes amid repeated claims by anti-Taliban groups that they have carried out attacks against Taliban positions in multiple provinces, although Taliban officials have not publicly commented on these incidents or reported losses among their forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed Clash in Kunduz. Local sources in Kunduz Province reported an armed clash between unknown gunmen and Taliban fighters on Monday, 5 January 2026, at around 8:30 p.m. local time in the Samti Siaf area of Kunduz City. The disturbance began with an explosion, followed by intermittent fighting around checkpoints. Taliban forces responded with scattered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14965","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\/14965","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=14965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14975,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14965\/revisions\/14975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}