{"id":15508,"date":"2026-02-11T01:06:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T20:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=15508"},"modified":"2026-02-11T01:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T20:40:14","slug":"bloody-taliban-conflict-over-gold-in-badakhshan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/bloody-taliban-conflict-over-gold-in-badakhshan\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloody Taliban Conflict over Gold in Badakhshan."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bloody Taliban Conflict over Gold in Badakhshan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Local sources in Badakhshan Province report a violent clash between forces loyal to Ismail Ghaznawi, the Taliban governor, and local Taliban fighters.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The incident occurred last night in the Khastak Valley of Shahr-e Bozorg District, significantly destabilizing the region\u2019s security.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sources indicate that the internal Taliban conflict has resulted in at least one death and two injuries, and has temporarily blocked transportation routes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Local residents report that the sound of repeated gunfire and deployment of armed forces has caused widespread fear and disrupted daily life.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sources stress that the root cause of the violence is competition for control of the Avishahr gold mine a site that has become a new arena for Taliban power struggles, corruption, and economic exploitation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The lack of transparency, law, and oversight over natural resources has turned Badakhshan into a theater for economic conflicts and internal Taliban vendettas, threatening the security and future of the province\u2019s population.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bloody Taliban Conflict over Gold in Badakhshan. Local sources in Badakhshan Province report a violent clash between forces loyal to Ismail Ghaznawi, the Taliban governor, and local Taliban fighters. The incident occurred last night in the Khastak Valley of Shahr-e Bozorg District, significantly destabilizing the region\u2019s security. Sources indicate that the internal Taliban conflict has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15508","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=15508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15514,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15508\/revisions\/15514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}