{"id":20046,"date":"2026-08-22T05:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T05:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/22\/saudi-arabia-condemns-blast-near-school-in-kabul\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T05:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T05:15:17","slug":"saudi-arabia-condemns-blast-near-school-in-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/22\/saudi-arabia-condemns-blast-near-school-in-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia condemns blast near school in Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Foreign Ministry has condemned the recent blast near a school in Kabul, saying it stands with the people of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the ministry expressed its strong opposition to all forms of violence, extremism and terrorism. Saudi Arabia also wished a speedy recovery to those wounded in the incident and called for lasting peace, security and stability for the people of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion occurred on Monday in the Dasht-e-Barchi area, adjacent to the 18th police district of Kabul city. According to published information, about 42 children were wounded in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Dasht-e-Barchi in western Kabul is considered one of the city&#8217;s densely populated areas and in recent years has repeatedly witnessed bloody attacks, especially against civilians and educational centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia condemns a blast near a school in Kabul, saying it stands with Afghanistan and wishes the wounded a speedy recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20046","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=20046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}