{"id":17806,"date":"2020-05-03T06:11:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T21:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/02\/us-military-taliban-withdrawal-agreement-afghanistan"},"modified":"2020-05-03T06:11:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T21:11:27","slug":"us-warns-taliban-to-curb-attacks-after-exit-deal-calls-for-80-cut-to-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17806","title":{"rendered":"US warns Taliban to curb attacks after exit deal calls for 80% cut to violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previously secret agreement emerges as spokesmen for US military and Taliban clash on Twitter<\/p>\n<p>The US military has warned the Taliban it must curb attacks inside Afghanistan and revealed that a US troop withdrawal agreement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/29\/us-taliban-sign-peace-agreement-afghanistan-war\">signed in February<\/a> included an informal commitment for both sides to cut violence by 80%.<\/p>\n<p>The previously secret arrangement was revealed in a Twitter spat between the US military spokesman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USFOR_A\/status\/1256505755886407680\">Col Sonny Leggett<\/a> and his Taliban counterpart <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Zabehulah_M33\">Zabihullah Mujahid<\/a>. It comes after a sharp escalation in militant attacks since the agreement was sealed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/02\/us-military-taliban-withdrawal-agreement-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously secret agreement emerges as spokesmen for US military and Taliban clash on TwitterThe US military has warned the Taliban it must curb attacks inside Afghanistan and revealed that a US troop withdrawal agreement signed in February included an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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":[46,1069,61,44,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-military","category-us-news","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\/17806","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17847,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17806\/revisions\/17847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}