{"id":15965,"date":"2026-03-17T02:41:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=15965"},"modified":"2026-03-17T02:41:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:11:38","slug":"taliban-counterstrike-after-kandahar-bombing-south-waziristan-reportedly-in-security-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/taliban-counterstrike-after-kandahar-bombing-south-waziristan-reportedly-in-security-shock\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Counterstrike After Kandahar Bombing; South Waziristan Reportedly in Security Shock."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Taliban Counterstrike After Kandahar Bombing; South Waziristan Reportedly in Security Shock.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Taliban Ministry of Defense has announced that it carried out a drone strike on a Pakistani military installation in the Wana area of South Waziristan, describing it as a direct response to Pakistan\u2019s air bombardments the previous night in Kandahar Province.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The statement, released on Sunday, 15 March 2026, corresponding to 24 Hoot 1404 in the Afghan solar calendar, indicates an escalation in security tensions between the two sides.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the communiqu\u00e9, a facility belonging to the Pakistani Special Services Group (SSG) commandos and several other military installations were targeted, allegedly causing significant human and material losses to Pakistani forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, Pakistani officials have not yet commented on these claims, and no independent details have been released.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Pakistan reportedly conducted fresh air strikes overnight in areas of Kandahar Province. Taliban representatives said that a drug rehabilitation center and an empty container were damaged in those attacks and that no casualties were reported \u2014 an incident that has heightened concerns about a potential widening of hostilities in border regions.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taliban Counterstrike After Kandahar Bombing; South Waziristan Reportedly in Security Shock. The Taliban Ministry of Defense has announced that it carried out a drone strike on a Pakistani military installation in the Wana area of South Waziristan, describing it as a direct response to Pakistan\u2019s air bombardments the previous night in Kandahar Province. The statement, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15965","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=15965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15996,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15965\/revisions\/15996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}