{"id":42057,"date":"2026-01-19T12:46:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=42057"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:46:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:46:27","slug":"several-killed-in-kabul-blast-afghan-interior-ministry-says-taliban-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=42057","title":{"rendered":"Several killed in Kabul blast, Afghan Interior Ministry says | Taliban News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 19 Jan 2026<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">19 Jan 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>Several \u200dpeople \u200dhave been killed in a blast in \u2060Afghanistan\u2019s Kabul, \u200bthe Taliban Interior \u200dMinistry said.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion occurred on Monday in the Shahr-e-Naw area of the capital, which is home \u200cto foreigners and \u2060thought to be one of the most secure areas \u200cin Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to preliminary reports, \u200da \u2060number of people were killed and injured,\u201d Interior Ministry spokesperson Abdul Mateen Qani told \u200bthe Reuters news agency, \u200cadding that details would be released later.<\/p>\n<p>Blasts in Kabul, and across Afghanistan, are rarer since the Taliban returned to power following the United States withdrawal in 2021, but ISIL affiliates are still active in the country and carry out sporadic attacks.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published On 19 Jan 202619 Jan 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Several \u200dpeople \u200dhave been killed in a blast in \u2060Afghanistan\u2019s Kabul, \u200bthe Taliban Interior \u200dMinistry said. The explosion occurred on Monday in the Shahr-e-Naw area of the capital, which is home \u200cto foreigners and \u2060thought to be one of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[4139,5476,22264,12923,632,4142,150,8880],"class_list":{"0":"post-42057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-afghan","9":"tag-blast","10":"tag-interior","11":"tag-kabul","12":"tag-killed","13":"tag-ministry","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-taliban"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}