{"id":16333,"date":"2026-07-17T11:10:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=16333"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:10:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:40:57","slug":"powerful-explosion-reported-near-taliban-checkpoint-in-kunduz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/powerful-explosion-reported-near-taliban-checkpoint-in-kunduz\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful Explosion Reported Near Taliban Checkpoint in Kunduz."},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16343\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/akundozeea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/akundozeea.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/akundozeea-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/akundozeea-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/akundozeea-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/akundozeea-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Powerful Explosion Reported Near Taliban Checkpoint in Kunduz.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>A powerful explosion occurred near a Taliban checkpoint in the Imam Sahib Port area of Kunduz Province at approximately 8:25 p.m. on Thursday, July 2, 2026, according to local sources.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The cause of the blast remains unclear. Sources claim at least seven Taliban members were killed or injured, but the casualties have not been independently verified. Taliban authorities have not commented on the incident.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powerful Explosion Reported Near Taliban Checkpoint in Kunduz. A powerful explosion occurred near a Taliban checkpoint in the Imam Sahib Port area of Kunduz Province at approximately 8:25 p.m. on Thursday, July 2, 2026, according to local sources. The cause of the blast remains unclear. Sources claim at least seven Taliban members were killed or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16333","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\/16333","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=16333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16348,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16333\/revisions\/16348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}