{"id":25496,"date":"2026-11-07T06:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T06:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/07\/russian-foreign-ministry-criticizes-2009-us-airstrike-kunduz\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T06:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T06:10:14","slug":"russian-foreign-ministry-criticizes-2009-us-airstrike-kunduz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/07\/russian-foreign-ministry-criticizes-2009-us-airstrike-kunduz\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Foreign Ministry Criticizes 2009 US Airstrike in Kunduz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, criticized a 2009 US airstrike in the village of Omar Kheil in Kunduz province. The attack, carried out at the request of German forces, resulted in the deaths of approximately one hundred civilians. According to Zakharova, the airstrike took place on September 3, when armed individuals had taken two fuel tankers belonging to German forces hostage, and several local residents had gathered around the tankers. Zakharova described this operation as one of the controversial actions by German special forces during the Afghanistan War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Foreign Ministry condemns 2009 US airstrike in Kunduz that killed around 100 civilians after German forces&#8217; request during Afghanistan War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25496","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=25496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}