{"id":16525,"date":"2020-03-29T02:59:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T17:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/28\/taliban-refuses-to-talk-to-afghan-governments-negotiating-team"},"modified":"2020-03-29T02:59:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T17:59:33","slug":"taliban-refuses-to-talk-to-afghan-governments-negotiating-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16525","title":{"rendered":"Taliban refuses to talk to Afghan government&#8217;s negotiating team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The militant group\u2019s refusal represents a setback for US-brokered peace talks<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban refused to begin talks with the Afghan government\u2019s new negotiating team on Saturday, in a setback to the US-brokered peace process for one of the world\u2019s longest-running conflicts.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/24\/us-to-cut-1bn-of-afghanistan-aid-over-failure-to-agree-unity-government\">US to cut $1bn of Afghanistan aid over failure to agree unity government<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/28\/taliban-refuses-to-talk-to-afghan-governments-negotiating-team\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The militant group\u2019s refusal represents a setback for US-brokered peace talksThe Taliban refused to begin talks with the Afghan government\u2019s new negotiating team on Saturday, in a setback to the US-brokered peace process for one of the world\u2019s longest-&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[46,621,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ashraf-ghani","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\/16525","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16526,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16525\/revisions\/16526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}