{"id":21210,"date":"2026-09-06T12:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/06\/low-flying-unidentified-drones-alarm-khost-residents\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T12:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:45:15","slug":"low-flying-unidentified-drones-alarm-khost-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/06\/low-flying-unidentified-drones-alarm-khost-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-Flying Unidentified Drones Alarm Residents in Afghanistan&#8217;s Khost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local sources in Khost say drones have been flying over parts of the province&#8217;s skies since Saturday evening, 14 Sunbula, in an incident that has raised concerns among residents because of the low altitude of the flights.<\/p>\n<p>According to the sources, the drones were not only seen over the provincial capital, Khost city, but also patrolled over the districts of Tani, Ismailkhel and several other areas of the province.<\/p>\n<p>The sources told the 8am newspaper that the drones are Pakistani. However, the published report did not include any explanation from official authorities about the nature of the flights.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, reports had also said unidentified drones had patrolled the skies over Khost, and sources said Taliban administration forces sometimes fired at them.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, similar reports have been published about drone flights over Khost, Paktia and Paktika as well. Khost is located in southeastern Afghanistan and shares a border with Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low-flying drones over Khost have alarmed residents, with local sources saying the aircraft are Pakistani.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21210","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\/21210","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=21210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}