{"id":19542,"date":"2026-08-11T15:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/11\/gunfight-maimana-afghanistan-two-dead-four-injured\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T15:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:18:14","slug":"gunfight-maimana-afghanistan-two-dead-four-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/11\/gunfight-maimana-afghanistan-two-dead-four-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunfight in Afghanistan&#8217;s Maimana leaves two dead, four injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A gunfight in Maimana, the capital of Afghanistan&#8217;s Faryab province, has left two people dead, including a Taliban fighter and the attacker, and four others wounded, including one civilian.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban administration said on Tuesday, 20 August, that the incident began at around 10:30 a.m., when a man identified as &#8220;Azam&#8221; clashed with a civilian and wounded him.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Taliban administration, after its fighters arrived at the scene, the attacker also came under fire and then fled the area. The administration said its forces launched an operation to arrest him.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban said that during the operation, one of its fighters was killed and another person was wounded. It also said the attacker was killed in gunfire from its forces.<\/p>\n<p>Maimana is the capital of Faryab province in northern Afghanistan, a province where security incidents and sporadic clashes have been reported in some areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gunfight in Maimana, Afghanistan, killed two people and wounded four, including a Taliban fighter and a civilian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19542","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\/19542","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=19542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}