{"id":10378,"date":"2026-04-09T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/09\/kabul-jalalabad-highway-closed-landslide-heavy-rain\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:00:25","slug":"kabul-jalalabad-highway-closed-landslide-heavy-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/09\/kabul-jalalabad-highway-closed-landslide-heavy-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Kabul-Jalalabad Highway Closed Due to Landslide Following Heavy Rainfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kabul-Jalalabad highway has been closed due to a landslide caused by heavy rainfall in the Tang-i-Gharo area. This incident has halted vehicle traffic on one of the country&#8217;s most important highways.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers and passengers heading to Nangarhar province have been forced to use an alternative route through the Tagab district in Kapisa province. This route is being used temporarily as a substitute.<\/p>\n<p>The Kabul-Jalalabad highway is a key transit route in eastern Afghanistan, connecting Kabul to Nangarhar and the Torkham border crossing. Its closure typically causes difficulties for travelers and the transportation of commercial goods.<\/p>\n<p>So far, no details have been released regarding when the highway will reopen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kabul-Jalalabad highway is closed due to a landslide from heavy rain, disrupting travel and trade in eastern Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}