{"id":23438,"date":"2026-10-07T13:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/07\/taliban-spokesman-october-7-black-day-afghanistan-migration\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T13:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:45:15","slug":"taliban-spokesman-october-7-black-day-afghanistan-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/07\/taliban-spokesman-october-7-black-day-afghanistan-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban spokesperson says October 7 was a &#8216;black day&#8217; and the start of migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hamdullah Fitrat, deputy spokesman for the Taliban administration, has described October 7 as a &#8220;black day&#8221; in Afghanistan&#8217;s history, saying that the events that began on that date had heavy consequences for the Afghan people.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, as a result of these events, &#8220;thousands&#8221; of Afghans were killed and injured, and many others were detained or forced to migrate.<\/p>\n<p>Fitrat also claimed that after &#8220;extensive efforts,&#8221; Afghans were able to once again &#8220;liberate&#8221; their country.<\/p>\n<p>The United States and its allies launched a military operation in Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, an operation that began following the September 11 attacks that year and whose repercussions cast a shadow for years over the country&#8217;s security situation and the lives of Afghan citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat calls October 7 a black day in Afghanistan and says it marked the start of migration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23438","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=23438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}