{"id":16112,"date":"2026-06-28T14:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/28\/afghanistan-clears-30-square-km-mines-three-months\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T14:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:20:15","slug":"afghanistan-clears-30-square-km-mines-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/28\/afghanistan-clears-30-square-km-mines-three-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 30 Square Kilometers Cleared of Mines in Afghanistan in Three Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Mine Clearance Authority has announced that over 30 square kilometers of mine- and unexploded ordnance-contaminated areas have been cleared in the first three months of the year 1405 (solar calendar) in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Taj Mohammad Hamid, deputy spokesperson of the authority, stated that during these operations, a total of 1,899 mines and unexploded ordnance were discovered and destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan is among the countries heavily contaminated by mines left over from decades of conflict, with these explosives consistently posing threats to the lives of residents, especially children and farmers. The clearance of mine-contaminated areas remains a continuous program of this agency.<\/p>\n<p>However, the need for financial and technical resources to accelerate the demining process is still considered a major challenge in this sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan cleared over 30 sq km of mine-contaminated land in three months, destroying 1,899 explosives amid ongoing demining challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16112","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=16112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}