{"id":13068,"date":"2026-05-15T15:01:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/15\/us-central-command-afghanistan-security-concern\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T15:01:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:01:27","slug":"us-central-command-afghanistan-security-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/15\/us-central-command-afghanistan-security-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"US Central Command: Afghanistan Remains a Key Security Concern for Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) has stated that Afghanistan continues to be one of Washington&#8217;s primary security concerns, with activities related to potential threats emanating from the country being closely monitored.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Cooper, a senior US military official, told a US Senate committee that Washington has not completely ignored Afghanistan and is working with regional partners to contain and suppress potential threats. He emphasized, &#8220;We have not completely ignored Afghanistan. It remains a concerning area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These remarks come amid increased worries about the expansion of extremist groups and cross-border threats since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. Despite the Taliban administration&#8217;s claims of ensuring security, ongoing international warnings indicate that the global community remains cautious about the security situation in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Security experts have previously stressed that any gaps in oversight and restrictions on international organizations&#8217; access could hinder accurate assessments of threat levels. According to US officials, this is why Washington continues its monitoring and regional cooperation on the Afghanistan issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Central Command says Afghanistan remains a major security concern, with Washington closely monitoring potential threats and cooperating regionally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13068","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=13068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}