{"id":15753,"date":"2026-02-28T03:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=15753"},"modified":"2026-02-28T03:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:16:16","slug":"powerful-explosion-in-kunduz-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/powerful-explosion-in-kunduz-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful Explosion in Kunduz."},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15766\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/akunduzaeeeddqet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/akunduzaeeeddqet.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/akunduzaeeeddqet-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/akunduzaeeeddqet-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/akunduzaeeeddqet-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/akunduzaeeeddqet-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 say that at approximately 7:00 p.m. local time today, a powerful explosion occurred on Azadi Road in Kunduz city.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The target of the blast was reported to be a Toyota Corolla 2000 model vehicle. The vehicle is said to have belonged to Taliban intelligence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Several personnel from that department were reportedly killed and wounded. Sources add that following the explosion, Taliban forces completely sealed off the area.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>They prevented residents from approaching the site.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Precise details regarding the number of casualties and the extent of the damage have not yet been released. However, the intensity of the explosion was described as significant.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Local sources also note that the attack comes amid an increase in operations against Taliban forces in northern Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>In recent months, the group has reportedly suffered considerable losses. So far, the Taliban have not issued any official response regarding the incident.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Given the heavy censorship environment in Afghanistan, domestic media are not permitted to cover such incidents.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Only media outlets outside the country, with access to credible internal sources, are able to report accurately on such events.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powerful Explosion in Kunduz. Local sources say that at approximately 7:00 p.m. local time today, a powerful explosion occurred on Azadi Road in Kunduz city. The target of the blast was reported to be a Toyota Corolla 2000 model vehicle. The vehicle is said to have belonged to Taliban intelligence. Several personnel from that department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15753","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\/15753","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=15753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15773,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15753\/revisions\/15773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}