{"id":23140,"date":"2026-10-03T16:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T16:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/03\/russia-embassy-concern-civilian-casualties-pakistan-strikes-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T16:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T16:15:15","slug":"russia-embassy-concern-civilian-casualties-pakistan-strikes-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/03\/russia-embassy-concern-civilian-casualties-pakistan-strikes-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s embassy expresses concern over civilian casualties in Pakistan\u2019s strikes on Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNAMA has confirmed the deaths of at least 10 civilians in Pakistani air strikes on Afghanistan\u2019s Kunar and Helmand provinces, while Russia\u2019s embassy in Kabul has also expressed concern over the impact of military clashes on civilians, especially children.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on its X account on Saturday, 11 October, the Russian embassy said a number of people, including children, were killed and others were wounded in overnight strikes on the two provinces on 1 October.<\/p>\n<p>Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesman for the Taliban administration, said Pakistani aircraft bombed civilians\u2019 homes in the Chowgam area of Shultan district in Kunar and the Safar area of Garmsir district in Helmand. He said nine people, including women and children, were killed and 11 others were wounded in the attacks, and three houses were also destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said the strikes targeted hideouts and shelters of Pakistani groups, and that 22 \u201cterrorists\u201d were killed as a result. In confirming the civilian casualties, UNAMA did not name Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNAMA confirms at least 10 civilian deaths in Pakistani air strikes on Afghanistan, as Russia\u2019s embassy voices concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23140","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\/23140","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=23140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}