{"id":15011,"date":"2026-01-08T02:37:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=15011"},"modified":"2026-01-08T02:37:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:07:45","slug":"taliban-kill-former-marshal-dostum-commander-in-jawzjan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/taliban-kill-former-marshal-dostum-commander-in-jawzjan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Kill Former Marshal Dostum Commander in Jawzjan."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Taliban Kill Former Marshal Dostum Commander in Jawzjan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Local sources in Khwaja Du Koh district, Jawzjan province, report that the Taliban pulled a former commander of Marshal Dostum, named Yousuf Qomandan, from a relative\u2019s wedding ceremony and shot him in the head, killing him.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The incident occurred on Wednesday evening, January 7, 2026, and has caused widespread concern among local residents.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sources indicate that Yousuf Qomandan had previously been released from Taliban custody and had returned to Afghanistan from Iran.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Local reports stress that even after his release, he remained under constant threat from the Taliban, and his security was severely at risk.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is not the first time the Taliban have targeted former commanders of the National Movement party.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Previously, in Shiberghan city, the Taliban had attacked Sher Qomandan, another former commander, who survived the assault.<\/strong><\/p>\n

These events have heightened concerns about the security of former leaders and political activists in northern Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taliban Kill Former Marshal Dostum Commander in Jawzjan. Local sources in Khwaja Du Koh district, Jawzjan province, report that the Taliban pulled a former commander of Marshal Dostum, named Yousuf Qomandan, from a relative\u2019s wedding ceremony and shot him in the head, killing him. The incident occurred on Wednesday evening, January 7, 2026, and has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15011","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\/15011","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=15011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15019,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15011\/revisions\/15019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}