{"id":30020,"date":"2021-03-22T00:22:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T15:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/21\/us-defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-afghanistan-ashraf-ghani-troop-withdrawal"},"modified":"2021-03-22T00:22:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T15:22:43","slug":"us-defense-secretary-austin-visits-afghanistan-as-exit-deadline-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30020","title":{"rendered":"US defense secretary Austin visits Afghanistan as exit deadline looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Surprise visit and meeting with President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul<\/li>\n<li>Trip comes ahead of 1 May deadline to bring US troops home<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lloyd Austin, the US secretary of defense, made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Sunday, meeting President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/18\/afghan-activists-warn-over-absence-of-women-in-peace-process\">Afghan peace summit includes just one female delegate<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/21\/us-defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-afghanistan-ashraf-ghani-troop-withdrawal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprise visit and meeting with President Ashraf Ghani in KabulTrip comes ahead of 1 May deadline to bring US troops homeLloyd Austin, the US secretary of defense, made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Sunday, meeting President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2025,"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":[46,1854,61,44,45,473,758,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-biden-administration","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","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\/30020","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\/2025"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30021,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30020\/revisions\/30021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}