{"id":13616,"date":"2026-05-25T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/25\/taliban-forced-return-883-families-afghanistan-border-crossings\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T06:00:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:00:39","slug":"taliban-forced-return-883-families-afghanistan-border-crossings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/25\/taliban-forced-return-883-families-afghanistan-border-crossings\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Reports Forced Return of 883 Families from Four Border Crossings into Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration has announced that yesterday, 883 families totaling 4,592 individuals were forcibly returned to Afghanistan from neighboring countries. These individuals entered the country through four border crossings.<\/p>\n<p>Hamdullah Fetrat, deputy spokesman for the Taliban administration, said in a statement on Monday, May 25, that the highest number of returns were recorded at the Torkham border in Nangarhar province, where 776 families comprising 4,142 individuals entered Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, 16 families returned through the Spin Boldak crossing in Kandahar, 54 families from the Nimroz border, and 37 families from the Islam Qala route in Herat.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, the process of forced expulsion and return of Afghan migrants has intensified, raising concerns about the livelihoods and accommodation of these families. Many returnees enter the country facing a shortage of job opportunities, inadequate shelter, and widespread economic challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the increasing number of returnees, the Taliban administration has yet to present a clear and practical plan to sustainably address the basic needs of these vulnerable families, a situation that places additional strain on host communities and residents of border areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban says 883 families, over 4,500 people, forcibly returned to Afghanistan from neighboring countries via four border crossings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-migrant-news","category-secondary-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13616","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=13616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}