{"id":18905,"date":"2026-08-01T16:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T16:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/01\/afghanistan-united-front-claims-attack-on-taliban-kandahar\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T16:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T16:45:19","slug":"afghanistan-united-front-claims-attack-on-taliban-kandahar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/01\/afghanistan-united-front-claims-attack-on-taliban-kandahar\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan United Front Claims Armed Attack Against Taliban Administration in Kandahar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghanistan United Front, led by General Sami Sadat, has announced that its forces carried out their first armed operation against the Taliban administration in Kandahar province.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released by the front, it was stated that vehicles carrying Taliban forces on the Kandahar-Sp\u012bn Boldak route were targeted. According to the front&#8217;s claim, the operation took place on the 8th of Asad, and a video from the scene has also been shared on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban administration has not yet responded to these claims.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghanistan United Front, under the leadership of General Sami Sadat, a senior general of the former republic&#8217;s military, was established in 1402 (2023-2024) in the United States. Prior to this, there were no reports of military operations carried out by the front. This event comes amid recent reports of increased activities by anti-Taliban fronts in several provinces across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan United Front led by General Sami Sadat claims first armed operation against Taliban forces in Kandahar, amid rising anti-Taliban activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18905","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\/18905","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=18905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}