{"id":238,"date":"2025-09-22T10:18:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T10:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/?p=238"},"modified":"2025-09-22T10:18:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T10:18:53","slug":"taliban-admit-afghanistan-airspace-foreign-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/09\/22\/taliban-admit-afghanistan-airspace-foreign-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Education Minister Admits Afghanistan\u2019s Airspace Remains Under Foreign Control"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Habibullah Agha, the Taliban\u2019s acting minister of education, has admitted that Afghanistan\u2019s airspace remains under the control of foreign forces, and that the Taliban administration is unable to regain it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at a gathering in Paktia province, Agha said U.S. drones continue to fly over Afghanistan at night without obstruction and that the current authorities are powerless to stop these intrusions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highlighting global technological advancements, he stated: \u201cThe world has now reached a stage where they build drones and attack the airspace of you and me.\u201d He openly conceded that the Taliban government lacks the capability to \u201cliberate\u201d the country\u2019s skies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His remarks come as the Taliban struggle to establish full control over Afghanistan\u2019s land and air borders since retaking power. A lack of technical capacity, international recognition, and growing isolation are seen as major barriers preventing the Taliban from asserting national sovereignty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting Education Minister Habibullah Agha acknowledged that Afghanistan\u2019s airspace is still controlled by foreign powers, citing nightly U.S. drone flights and admitting the Taliban lacks the capacity to reclaim control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}