{"id":23008,"date":"2026-10-01T07:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T07:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/01\/pakistan-airstrikes-kunar-helmand-22-terrorists-killed\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T07:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T07:15:18","slug":"pakistan-airstrikes-kunar-helmand-22-terrorists-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/01\/pakistan-airstrikes-kunar-helmand-22-terrorists-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan says 22 &#8216;terrorists&#8217; killed in airstrikes in Kunar and Helmand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Ministry of Information said its forces have targeted two hideouts of the groups referred to as &#8220;Fitna al-Khawarij&#8221; and &#8220;Fitna al-Hindustan&#8221; and their affiliates in continued operations under &#8220;Azm-e-Istehkam.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Oct. 1, the ministry claimed the strikes were carried out on the basis of &#8220;reliable intelligence&#8221; and that 22 &#8220;terrorists&#8221; were killed. It said a large quantity of weapons and ammunition was also destroyed in the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban officials, however, say that in Pakistani airstrikes on areas in the provinces of Kunar and Helmand, nine civilians were killed and 11 others wounded. The strikes took place on Thursday morning, and the victims, according to the officials, included women and children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan says 22 militants were killed in airstrikes in Kunar and Helmand, while Taliban officials report civilian casualties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23008","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\/23008","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=23008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}