{"id":20530,"date":"2026-08-27T16:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/27\/afghanistan-freedom-front-taliban-checkpoint-attack-kabul\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T16:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:50:23","slug":"afghanistan-freedom-front-taliban-checkpoint-attack-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/27\/afghanistan-freedom-front-taliban-checkpoint-attack-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Front Says Attack on Taliban Checkpoint in Kabul Kills Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghanistan Freedom Front has said that three fighters from the Taliban administration were killed and two others wounded in an attack by its forces on a Taliban checkpoint in Kabul city.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Freedom Front, the incident took place on Thursday evening, 5 Sonbola, at around 8:00 pm, in the Ali Khel area of Police District 16 in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>The front added in a statement that its own forces were not harmed in the attack. Independent sources have so far not commented on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The Freedom Front also said clashes between the group and the Taliban administration have increased in recent weeks in different parts of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>A day earlier, it had also claimed that in an attack on a Taliban checkpoint in Kunar province, one fighter from the administration was killed and two others wounded. Police District 16 covers one of the eastern parts of Kabul city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s Freedom Front says an attack on a Taliban checkpoint in Kabul killed three fighters and wounded two others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20530","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\/20530","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=20530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}