{"id":76542,"date":"2026-03-02T13:44:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/02\/afghanistan-pakistan-airstrikes-bagram-airbase"},"modified":"2026-03-02T13:44:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:44:37","slug":"afghanistan-says-it-thwarted-pakistan-airstrikes-on-bagram-airbase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76542","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan says it thwarted Pakistan airstrikes on Bagram airbase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sporadic clashes reported in several provinces in Afghanistan as both sides give conflicting death tolls<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan has said it had thwarted Pakistan\u2019s attempted airstrikes on Bagram airbase, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2021\/jul\/06\/inside-afghanistans-looted-bagram-airbase-after-us-departure-in-pictures\">the former US military base<\/a> north of Kabul, as cross-border fighting between the two countries stretched into a fourth day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/27\/pakistan-miscalculation-taliban-afghanistan\">Months of clashes<\/a> have flared up again since Thursday, when Afghanistan launched attacks along the frontier and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/21\/pakistan-strikes-militant-hideouts-on-afghan-border-after-surge-in-attacks\">Pakistani forces hit back<\/a> on the border and from the skies. Pakistan has declared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/27\/pakistan-declares-state-of-open-war-after-bombing-major-afghan-cities\">it is in \u201copen war\u201d with Afghanistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/02\/afghanistan-pakistan-airstrikes-bagram-airbase\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sporadic clashes reported in several provinces in Afghanistan as both sides give conflicting death tollsAfghanistan has said it had thwarted Pakistan\u2019s attempted airstrikes on Bagram airbase, the former US military base north of Kabul, as cross-border &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,60,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76543,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76542\/revisions\/76543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}