{"id":22530,"date":"2026-09-23T17:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/23\/eu-calls-for-protection-of-civilians-after-air-strikes-in-kunar-and-paktika\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T17:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:45:17","slug":"eu-calls-for-protection-of-civilians-after-air-strikes-in-kunar-and-paktika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/23\/eu-calls-for-protection-of-civilians-after-air-strikes-in-kunar-and-paktika\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Calls for Protection of Civilians After Air Strikes in Kunar and Paktika"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union in Afghanistan has stressed the need to fully protect civilians following air strikes in the provinces of Kunar, Paktia and Paktika, and has called for compliance with international humanitarian law at all times.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X on Wednesday, 1 Mizan, the European Union said civilians must be kept safe from harm under all circumstances. The bloc also stressed that the principles and rules of international humanitarian law must always be respected.<\/p>\n<p>The statement came after Pakistan carried out air strikes yesterday on Barmal district in Paktika province and Nurgal district in Kunar province. The EU statement did not provide further details about the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Barmal district is among the border areas of Paktika province with Pakistan, while Nurgal district is located in eastern Afghanistan&#8217;s Kunar province; these areas have in some cases witnessed security tensions because of their proximity to the border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU called for civilian protection after air strikes in Afghanistan&#8217;s Kunar and Paktika provinces and urged respect for humanitarian law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22530","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=22530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}