{"id":22648,"date":"2026-09-26T10:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T10:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/26\/taliban-seize-580000-dollars-at-islam-qala-border-crossing\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T10:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T10:15:14","slug":"taliban-seize-580000-dollars-at-islam-qala-border-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/26\/taliban-seize-580000-dollars-at-islam-qala-border-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban says $580,000 seized at Islam Qala border crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration says it has seized $580,000 at the Islam Qala border crossing.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban-led Interior Ministry said border police at Islam Qala had arrested a person on suspicion of attempting to transfer $580,000 to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, the money was seized by border police and the detained individual will be handed over to judicial authorities after initial investigations.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban administration has not released further details about the person&#8217;s identity, how the cash was discovered, or the exact time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Islam Qala, in western Herat province, is one of Afghanistan&#8217;s most important border crossings with Iran and a major route for travel and trade between the two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban say border police seized $580,000 at the Islam Qala crossing as a man was arrested over an alleged transfer to Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22648","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\/22648","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=22648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}