{"id":17971,"date":"2026-07-20T05:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T05:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/pakistan-artillery-strikes-taliban-border-attacks\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T05:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T05:15:17","slug":"pakistan-artillery-strikes-taliban-border-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/20\/pakistan-artillery-strikes-taliban-border-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Targets Taliban Positions with Artillery Strikes Following Border Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani security sources have announced that in response to attacks by Taliban militants on the country\u2019s border posts, the group\u2019s positions across the border have been targeted with artillery strikes.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper Dawn reported on Sunday, July 19, that Taliban militants attacked Pakistani border posts using light and heavy weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Following this incident, Pakistani security forces targeted Taliban positions within Afghan territory. Pakistani security officials claimed that as a result of these retaliatory attacks, the Taliban militants abandoned their positions and withdrew.<\/p>\n<p>Border clashes between Pakistani forces and Taliban militants have repeatedly occurred since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, raising concerns about instability along the two countries\u2019 border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan launched artillery strikes on Taliban positions in Afghanistan after militants attacked Pakistani border posts, escalating border tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17971","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\/17971","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=17971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}