{"id":21682,"date":"2020-08-15T01:56:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T16:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/14\/afghanistan-releases-more-taliban-prisoners-to-pave-way-for-talks"},"modified":"2020-08-15T01:56:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T16:56:20","slug":"afghanistan-releases-more-taliban-prisoners-to-pave-way-for-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21682","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan releases more Taliban prisoners to pave way for talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kabul frees around 80 of last group of 400, removing last obstacle to negotiations<\/p>\n<p>Afghan authorities have started to release a final batch of 400 Taliban prisoners, removing the last obstacle to talks between the government in Kabul and the insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations on a possible end to Afghanistan\u2019s decades of war could begin as early as next week, one source said. The Associated Press also <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/992ba745107cf65b3d4083270f1a8fb6\">reported that 20 August<\/a> had been suggested as a possible start date, citing several Afghan leaders.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/14\/afghanistan-releases-more-taliban-prisoners-to-pave-way-for-talks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kabul frees around 80 of last group of 400, removing last obstacle to negotiationsAfghan authorities have started to release a final batch of 400 Taliban prisoners, removing the last obstacle to talks between the government in Kabul and the insurgents&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":402,"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":[46,61,44,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/21682","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\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21683,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21682\/revisions\/21683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}