{"id":18833,"date":"2026-08-01T07:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/01\/national-resistance-front-kills-two-taliban-herat-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T07:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:30:16","slug":"national-resistance-front-kills-two-taliban-herat-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/01\/national-resistance-front-kills-two-taliban-herat-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"National Resistance Front Reports Killing of Two Taliban Officials in Herat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Resistance Front has reported that two members of the Taliban administration were killed in Herat province following an attack on a Taliban patrol vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement released by the front, the incident took place on Thursday, August 8, near the Pashdan Dam in Herat. The front claimed that the killed individuals belonged to the &#8220;Al-Farooq Military Unit&#8221; of the Taliban administration in western Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The National Resistance Front emphasized in its statement that its forces carry out targeted attacks in various parts of Afghanistan. The group described the aim of these attacks as &#8220;liberating the people and the country from the illegitimate rule of the Taliban.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, reports have indicated a rise in attacks by the National Resistance Front against Taliban forces in some provinces of the country. The Taliban administration has not responded to this incident so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Resistance Front says two Taliban officials were killed in Herat during a targeted attack amid rising resistance activities in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18833","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\/18833","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=18833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}