{"id":20508,"date":"2026-08-27T10:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T10:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/27\/freedom-front-taliban-checkpoint-kabul-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T10:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T10:45:14","slug":"freedom-front-taliban-checkpoint-kabul-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/27\/freedom-front-taliban-checkpoint-kabul-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Front says it attacked Taliban checkpoint in Kabul, killing three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghanistan Freedom Front has said that three members of the Taliban administration were killed and at least two others wounded in an attack on a Taliban checkpoint in Kabul&#8217;s 16th security district.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Thursday, the group said its forces carried out the attack at around 8 p.m. on Wednesday, 4 Sunbula, in the Ali Kheil area.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Freedom Front&#8217;s claim, the target was a Taliban checkpoint. The group also released a video of the incident showing the moment of the explosion and a column of smoke rising.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban officials have so far not commented on the attack or the casualties claimed by the Freedom Front.<\/p>\n<p>Kabul&#8217;s 16th security district is located within the city, and Ali Kheil is among the areas in this district. In recent months, Kabul has repeatedly been the scene of targeted attacks and sporadic clashes against Taliban administration forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom Front says it attacked a Taliban checkpoint in Kabul, killing three members and wounding at least two others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20508","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\/20508","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=20508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}