{"id":32580,"date":"2021-05-29T11:25:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/may\/29\/taliban-threaten-afghan-security-guards-who-work-for-australian-embassy-in-kabul"},"modified":"2021-05-29T11:25:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:25:23","slug":"taliban-threaten-afghan-security-guards-who-work-for-australian-embassy-in-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32580","title":{"rendered":"Taliban threaten Afghan security guards who work for Australian embassy in Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guards say their work for Australia has made them and their families targets for retribution<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have publicly threatened Afghan security guards who have worked for the soon-to-be-shut Australian embassy, circulating pictures of them online and warning they would be targeted for cooperating with a foreign government.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian government announced this week that it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/may\/25\/australia-to-close-kabul-embassy-this-week-ahead-of-troop-withdrawal-from-afghanistan\">shutting its embassy in Kabul<\/a>, citing \u201can increasingly uncertain security environment\u201d and saying its diplomats would not be safe \u201cin light of the imminent international military withdrawal from Afghanistan\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/may\/29\/taliban-threaten-afghan-security-guards-who-work-for-australian-embassy-in-kabul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guards say their work for Australia has made them and their families targets for retributionThe Taliban have publicly threatened Afghan security guards who have worked for the soon-to-be-shut Australian embassy, circulating pictures of them online and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"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":[46,43,645,1585,324,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-military","category-australian-politics","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32580","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32581,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32580\/revisions\/32581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}