{"id":14998,"date":"2026-01-08T01:01:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=14998"},"modified":"2026-01-08T01:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:31:37","slug":"powerful-explosion-in-kunduz-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/powerful-explosion-in-kunduz-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful Explosion in Kunduz."},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15002\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/aqokndozdeed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/aqokndozdeed.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/aqokndozdeed-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/aqokndozdeed-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/aqokndozdeed-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/aqokndozdeed-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Powerful Explosion in Kunduz.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Local sources report a strong and powerful explosion in the city of Kunduz. According to these sources, the explosion occurred evening, January 7, 2026, near the central square of the city, triggering Taliban mobilization and escalating the security tension across the city.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Preliminary information indicates that at 6:50 PM local time, the blast targeted two Ranger vehicles affiliated with the Taliban.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Sources report that at least four individuals were killed or injured as a result, although exact casualty details have not yet been confirmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>This incident comes amid an increase in explosions and similar attacks in northern provinces over recent weeks and months, resulting in significant casualties among Taliban forces. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>However, the Taliban have not yet issued any official statement or response regarding this or the number of casualties.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powerful Explosion in Kunduz. Local sources report a strong and powerful explosion in the city of Kunduz. According to these sources, the explosion occurred evening, January 7, 2026, near the central square of the city, triggering Taliban mobilization and escalating the security tension across the city. Preliminary information indicates that at 6:50 PM local time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14998","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\/14998","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=14998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15006,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998\/revisions\/15006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}