{"id":19502,"date":"2026-08-11T08:01:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T08:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/11\/taliban-forced-return-1505-afghan-migrants-neighboring-countries\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T08:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T08:01:51","slug":"taliban-forced-return-1505-afghan-migrants-neighboring-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/11\/taliban-forced-return-1505-afghan-migrants-neighboring-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Reports Forced Return of 1,505 Afghan Migrants from Neighboring Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration has announced that on a single day, 298 families, totaling 1,505 individuals, were forcibly returned from neighboring countries to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Hamdullah Fetrat, the deputy spokesperson of the Taliban administration, said on Tuesday, August 11, that the majority of these returnees entered the country through the Torkham border crossing in Nangarhar province.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fetrat, 220 families comprising 1,191 individuals returned via Torkham, while 21 families totaling 116 people came through the Spin Boldak crossing in Kandahar province.<\/p>\n<p>He added that 35 families, including 109 people, crossed back into the country through the Islam Qala border in Herat province, and 22 families with 89 members entered via the Silk Road crossing in Nimroz province.<\/p>\n<p>Torkham, Spin Boldak, Islam Qala, and Silk Road are key transit points for the movement and return of Afghan migrants along the eastern, southern, and western borders of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban says 1,505 Afghan migrants from 298 families were forcibly returned from neighboring countries through key border crossings in one day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-migrant-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19502","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=19502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}