{"id":16315,"date":"2026-07-12T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T19:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=16315"},"modified":"2026-07-12T00:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T19:30:07","slug":"taliban-commander-joins-fatehs-forces-in-badakhshan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/taliban-commander-joins-fatehs-forces-in-badakhshan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Commander Joins Fateh\u2019s Forces in Badakhshan."},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16319\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/awalibeddlae.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/awalibeddlae.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/awalibeddlae-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/awalibeddlae-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/awalibeddlae-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/awalibeddlae-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Taliban Commander Joins Fateh\u2019s Forces in Badakhshan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Sources close to Juma Khan Fateh say Qari Ghafar Jurmi, a Taliban commander and son-in-law of Qari Wasil, has left the Taliban ranks with 35 of his fighters and joined Fateh\u2019s forces in the Darwaz area of Badakhshan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to the sources, the move comes amid growing internal divisions among Taliban commanders in Badakhshan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Qari Wasil is described by the sources as an influential Taliban figure and deputy commander of the group\u2019s military division in Badakhshan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The sources claim that Qari Ghafar\u2019s defection could strengthen Fateh\u2019s forces in the region and represents another sign of increasing internal disagreements within the Taliban.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Taliban has not commented on the report.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban Commander Joins Fateh\u2019s Forces in Badakhshan. Sources close to Juma Khan Fateh say Qari Ghafar Jurmi, a Taliban commander and son-in-law of Qari Wasil, has left the Taliban ranks with 35 of his fighters and joined Fateh\u2019s forces in the Darwaz area of Badakhshan. According to the sources, the move comes amid growing internal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16315","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\/16315","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=16315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16321,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16315\/revisions\/16321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}