{"id":18486,"date":"2020-05-21T04:07:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T19:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/20\/afghanistan-attacks-on-eve-of-us-brokered-peace-talks-underscore-scale-of-challenge"},"modified":"2020-05-21T04:07:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T19:07:51","slug":"afghanistan-attacks-underscore-scale-of-challenge-facing-peace-negotiators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18486","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan attacks underscore scale of challenge facing peace negotiators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban admits killing nine militiamen but denies targeting 14 worshippers<\/p>\n<p>At least 14 people have been killed in attacks on a mosque in northern Afghanistan and on worshippers returning from prayers in the east, as the US peace envoy arrived in Kabul to push Afghanistan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/16\/afghan-rivals-power-sharing-deal-would-promote-official-accused-of-and-torture\">newly united government<\/a> to start peace talks with the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban rapidly denied involvement in either shooting, but said it had carried out an attack on a checkpoint that killed nine militia fighters. The violence on the eve of the planned talks underscored the scale of the challenge facing the US-brokered efforts to negotiate an end to the war.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/20\/afghanistan-attacks-on-eve-of-us-brokered-peace-talks-underscore-scale-of-challenge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban admits killing nine militiamen but denies targeting 14 worshippersAt least 14 people have been killed in attacks on a mosque in northern Afghanistan and on worshippers returning from prayers in the east, as the US peace envoy arrived in Kabul t&#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":[46,621,59,471,626,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ashraf-ghani","category-global-development","category-islamic-state","category-peace-and-reconciliation","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\/18486","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=18486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18487,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18486\/revisions\/18487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}