{"id":23760,"date":"2026-10-11T17:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/11\/taliban-warns-flash-flood-risk-11-afghan-provinces\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T17:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T17:30:17","slug":"taliban-warns-flash-flood-risk-11-afghan-provinces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/11\/taliban-warns-flash-flood-risk-11-afghan-provinces\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban administration warns of flash flood risk in 11 Afghan provinces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban-run Ministry of Water and Energy has warned that there is a risk of flash floods and rising river and floodwater levels in 11 provinces of Afghanistan on the 20th, 21st and 22nd of Mizan.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said it issued the warning based on a weather assessment by the Meteorology Department and \u201creliable international agencies,\u201d and said heavy rainfall is possible in some areas.<\/p>\n<p>According to the list provided, the eastern and southeastern provinces of Khost, Paktia, Nangarhar, Laghman, Kunar and Nuristan are at risk of heavy rain and flooding. The central and northern provinces of Logar, Maidan Wardak, Kapisa, Parwan and Panjshir are also included in the warning.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban-run Ministry of Water and Energy has urged residents living near river courses and flood channels to observe safety precautions during rainfall and avoid going near water flows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban officials warn of flash floods and rising river levels in 11 Afghan provinces, urging residents to follow safety measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23760","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=23760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}