{"id":24876,"date":"2020-11-18T01:33:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T16:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/17\/trump-withdrawal-plan-could-tip-afghanistan-towards-more-violence"},"modified":"2020-11-18T01:33:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T16:33:52","slug":"trump-withdrawal-plan-could-tip-afghanistan-towards-more-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24876","title":{"rendered":"Trump withdrawal plan could tip Afghanistan towards more violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attacks up since September amid fears Taliban biding their time until US forces leave<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s plan for a swift withdrawal of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/16\/trump-plans-us-troops-withdrawal-afghanistan\">over half the US troops in Afghanistan<\/a> comes at a dangerous time for a country officially in peace talks, but grappling with escalating bloodshed and shrinking financial support from foreign donors.<\/p>\n<p>Attacks are up by 50% since negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban began in September, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sigar.mil\/pdf\/quarterlyreports\/2020-10-30qr.pdf\">recent US government report<\/a> found, above average levels for this time of year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/17\/trump-withdrawal-plan-could-tip-afghanistan-towards-more-violence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attacks up since September amid fears Taliban biding their time until US forces leaveDonald Trump\u2019s plan for a swift withdrawal of over half the US troops in Afghanistan comes at a dangerous time for a country officially in peace talks, but grappling w&#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":[46,61,45,758,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-national-security","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\/24876","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=24876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24877,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24876\/revisions\/24877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}