{"id":32450,"date":"2021-05-25T16:45:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T07:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/may\/25\/australia-to-close-kabul-embassy-this-week-ahead-of-troop-withdrawal-from-afghanistan"},"modified":"2021-05-25T16:45:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T07:45:59","slug":"afghan-security-guards-plead-for-help-after-australia-suddenly-closes-kabul-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32450","title":{"rendered":"Afghan security guards plead for help after Australia suddenly closes Kabul embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghans say they have been abandoned and face retribution from the Taliban once Australian forces leave<\/p>\n<p>Afghan security guards who have been working at Australia\u2019s embassy in Kabul say they feel abandoned after the sudden announcement of the embassy\u2019s closure, and their work on Australia\u2019s behalf has made them targets for Taliban assassins.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday the Australian government said it would shut the building in Kabul on Friday \u201cin light of the imminent international military withdrawal from Afghanistan\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/may\/25\/australia-to-close-kabul-embassy-this-week-ahead-of-troop-withdrawal-from-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghans say they have been abandoned and face retribution from the Taliban once Australian forces leaveAfghan security guards who have been working at Australia\u2019s embassy in Kabul say they feel abandoned after the sudden announcement of the embassy\u2019s c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2052,"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":[46,43,645,1585,324,325,386,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-military","category-australian-politics","category-marise-payne","category-scott-morrison","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32450","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\/2052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32451,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32450\/revisions\/32451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}