{"id":22622,"date":"2020-09-11T06:41:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T21:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/10\/afghan-government-to-start-peace-talks-with-taliban"},"modified":"2020-09-11T06:41:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T21:41:43","slug":"afghan-government-to-start-peace-talks-with-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22622","title":{"rendered":"Afghan government to start peace talks with Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Negotiations to end the long civil war were agreed as part of a withdrawal deal signed by the US<\/p>\n<p>The Afghan government and the Taliban will open peace talks on Saturday, trying to reach a power-sharing deal as American troops leave the country after nearly two decades.<\/p>\n<p>The negotiations to try to end the long civil war were agreed as part of a withdrawal deal that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/29\/us-taliban-sign-peace-agreement-afghanistan-war\">US signed with the Taliban<\/a> in February, but have stalled for months over details of a promised prisoner exchange.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/10\/afghan-government-to-start-peace-talks-with-taliban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Negotiations to end the long civil war were agreed as part of a withdrawal deal signed by the USThe Afghan government and the Taliban will open peace talks on Saturday, trying to reach a power-sharing deal as American troops leave the country after nea&#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":[46,44,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-taliban","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\/22622","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=22622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22623,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22622\/revisions\/22623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}