{"id":23176,"date":"2026-10-04T08:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T08:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/04\/fayzabad-motorcycle-bomb-blast-taliban-intelligence-guard-killed-badakhshan\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T08:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T08:31:17","slug":"fayzabad-motorcycle-bomb-blast-taliban-intelligence-guard-killed-badakhshan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/04\/fayzabad-motorcycle-bomb-blast-taliban-intelligence-guard-killed-badakhshan\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Bomb Blast in Fayzabad Kills Guard, Wounds Taliban Intelligence Figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local sources in Badakhshan say a motorcycle bomb explosion in the sixth district of Fayzabad city killed a guard and seriously wounded Safiullah Motawakkil, a Taliban intelligence figure in the province. According to the sources, the blast occurred this morning as Taliban intelligence forces were passing by.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said the sound of the explosion shook parts of the city. Taliban officials have not yet issued an official statement on the incident, and the details have not been independently confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes as Badakhshan has in recent weeks and months seen security incidents, arrests of people accused of cooperating with opposition groups, and overnight attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghanistan National Resistance Front also said on Saturday, Oct. 3, that its forces had targeted a Taliban checkpoint in the town of Kuran wa Munjan. The group claimed one Taliban member was killed and two others wounded in that attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A motorcycle bomb blast in Fayzabad killed a guard and seriously wounded a Taliban intelligence figure, local sources in Badakhshan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23176","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\/23176","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=23176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}