{"id":31827,"date":"2021-05-07T14:22:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T05:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/07\/afghanistan-us-warplanes-protect-troops-withdrawal"},"modified":"2021-05-07T14:22:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T05:22:56","slug":"us-deploys-extra-warplanes-to-protect-its-troops-withdrawing-from-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31827","title":{"rendered":"US deploys extra warplanes to protect its troops withdrawing from Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> F-18 attack planes and B-52 bombers can be called on to protect departing forces, amid expected increase in Taliban activity<\/p>\n<p>The United States has deployed a dozen additional warplanes to bolster protection of American and coalition troops making a final withdrawal from the country as Taliban insurgents step up pressure on Afghan government forces, top Pentagon officials have said.<\/p>\n<p>General Mark Milley, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said F-18 attack planes had been added to a previously announced package of air and sea power \u2013 including the USS Dwight D Eisenhower aircraft carrier in the North Arabian Sea and six air force B-52 bombers based in Qatar \u2013 that can be called upon as protection for withdrawing troops. Also part of that previously announced package are several hundred Army Rangers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/07\/afghanistan-us-warplanes-protect-troops-withdrawal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> F-18 attack planes and B-52 bombers can be called on to protect departing forces, amid expected increase in Taliban activityThe United States has deployed a dozen additional warplanes to bolster protection of American and coalition troops making a fin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[46,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31827","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31828,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31827\/revisions\/31828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}