{"id":18301,"date":"2026-07-24T11:18:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/24\/taliban-defuse-56-pressure-mines-sarkano-kunar\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:18:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:18:23","slug":"taliban-defuse-56-pressure-mines-sarkano-kunar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/24\/taliban-defuse-56-pressure-mines-sarkano-kunar\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Forces Discover and Defuse 56 Pressure Mines in Sarkano District, Kunar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration has announced that members of the engineering team of the security command in Kunar province discovered and defused 56 pressure mines and 12 mortar shells in the Shonkari Valley of Sarkano district. According to the administration, these munitions were planted near the assumed border line.<\/p>\n<p>Qari Sabghatullah, head of the engineering team, stated that these mines posed a serious threat to the lives of local residents and animals and were safely neutralized.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the process of clearing mine-contaminated areas and other unexploded ordnance is ongoing gradually to prevent potential incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Kunar province, located in eastern Afghanistan, has remained contaminated with mines and unexploded ordnance in parts due to armed conflicts in recent years, posing a persistent threat to the local population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban forces found and defused 56 pressure mines and 12 mortar shells in Sarkano district, Kunar, clearing threats near the border area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18301","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=18301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}