{"id":18907,"date":"2026-08-01T17:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/01\/taliban-seize-24-weapons-torkham-arrest-two-suspects\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T17:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:00:26","slug":"taliban-seize-24-weapons-torkham-arrest-two-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/01\/taliban-seize-24-weapons-torkham-arrest-two-suspects\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Authorities Seize 24 Firearms in Torkham, Arrest Two Suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security officials of the Taliban administration in Nangarhar province announced that they have stopped an attempt to smuggle a number of weapons from Pakistan into Afghanistan in the Torkham area. According to these officials, 24 different firearms were discovered and confiscated in the Momandara district, specifically in the Torkham region. They claim that these weapons were being brought into Afghanistan from across the border. Additionally, two individuals have been arrested in connection with this case. The Taliban administration has not provided further details about the identities of the detainees or the exact types of weapons seized. Torkham is one of the important border crossings between Afghanistan and Pakistan in Nangarhar province, and in recent years there have been multiple reports of arms and drug trafficking along this route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban officials in Nangarhar seize 24 firearms at Torkham border crossing and arrest two suspects during an attempted smuggling operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18907","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\/18907","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=18907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}