{"id":20362,"date":"2026-08-25T14:15:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T14:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/25\/taliban-members-poisoned-badghis-airlifted-herat\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T14:15:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T14:15:46","slug":"taliban-members-poisoned-badghis-airlifted-herat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/25\/taliban-members-poisoned-badghis-airlifted-herat\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Taliban Members Poisoned in Badghis, Airlifted to Herat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local sources in Badghis province say 11 members of the Taliban administration in the province have been poisoned and were transferred to Herat for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>According to the sources, the incident took place last night, and on Tuesday morning, 3 Sonbola, at around 5:00 a.m., several aircraft were dispatched to transport the individuals to Herat.<\/p>\n<p>The sources told 8Sobh newspaper that after arriving in Herat, the poisoned individuals were taken to the Taliban administration\u2019s military headquarters in the province.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the poisoning has not yet been clarified, and the sources have not provided further details about the agent behind it.<\/p>\n<p>Badghis is located in western Afghanistan, and Herat is one of its neighbouring provinces. Air transfer of patients or the wounded from Badghis is usually carried out in cases where urgent treatment cannot be provided locally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 Taliban members were poisoned in Badghis and airlifted to Herat for treatment, local sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20362","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\/20362","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=20362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}