{"id":21316,"date":"2026-09-07T16:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/07\/afghanistan-freedom-front-taliban-clashes-zibak-badakhshan\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T16:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T16:30:20","slug":"afghanistan-freedom-front-taliban-clashes-zibak-badakhshan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/07\/afghanistan-freedom-front-taliban-clashes-zibak-badakhshan\/","title":{"rendered":"Clashes Break Out Between Afghanistan Freedom Front and Taliban in Badakhshan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local sources in Afghanistan&#8217;s Badakhshan province say clashes between fighters from the Afghanistan Freedom Front and the Taliban administration began on Monday in Zibak district.<\/p>\n<p>According to these sources, the incident took place in the Zibak area, and sources affiliated with the Freedom Front have also confirmed the fighting.<\/p>\n<p>A resident of the Sang-Lich area near the site of the clashes told Afghanistan International that fighting is ongoing and that Taliban forces have been seen moving through the area.<\/p>\n<p>According to the source, the Taliban administration minutes earlier moved the body of one of its fighters from the clash site to the district center.<\/p>\n<p>So far, neither the Afghanistan Freedom Front nor the Taliban administration has said anything about possible casualties from the clash.<\/p>\n<p>Zibak district is located in the southeast of Badakhshan province and is one of the districts bordering Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clashes between the Afghanistan Freedom Front and Taliban forces have begun in Zibak district of Badakhshan, local sources say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21316","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\/21316","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=21316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}