{"id":22404,"date":"2026-09-22T10:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/22\/ahmad-massoud-saleh-mohammad-rigestani-national-resistance-front-commander\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T10:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:30:16","slug":"ahmad-massoud-saleh-mohammad-rigestani-national-resistance-front-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/22\/ahmad-massoud-saleh-mohammad-rigestani-national-resistance-front-commander\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmad Massoud Appoints Saleh Mohammad Rigestani as Resistance Front Operations Commander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmad Massoud, leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, has appointed Saleh Mohammad Rigestani as the general operational commander of the front\u2019s military headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment was announced after Rigestani recently appeared in a video message saying he was present in the Hindu Kush mountains.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment order was issued today, Tuesday, 31 Sempala. It calls on all officials, commanders and members of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan to cooperate and coordinate with him.<\/p>\n<p>Saleh Mohammad Rigestani, a former parliament member, had left Afghanistan after the collapse of the republic and the return of the Taliban to power. In a video message yesterday, he said he had returned to Afghanistan and the Hindu Kush.<\/p>\n<p>In the message, Rigestani said he had returned to the country after a &#8220;pause&#8221; and believes armed resistance is one of the effective ways to &#8220;liberate Afghanistan&#8221; from Taliban rule. The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan is one of the anti-Taliban movements that mainly operates in opposition to the administration&#8217;s rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmad Massoud appoints Saleh Mohammad Rigestani as the National Resistance Front&#8217;s operational commander after his return to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22404","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=22404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}