{"id":33626,"date":"2021-07-01T22:34:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T13:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/01\/afghan-civilians-forced-to-fight-taliban-as-foreign-troops-depart"},"modified":"2021-07-01T22:34:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T13:34:47","slug":"afghan-civilians-take-up-arms-against-taliban-as-foreign-troops-depart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33626","title":{"rendered":"Afghan civilians take up arms against Taliban as foreign troops depart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citizens react to spiralling violence with militants seizing at least 50 of county\u2019s nearly 400 districts since May<\/p>\n<p>Haji Ghoulam Farouq Siawshani watched the Taliban rampage across northern Afghanistan this month, weighing up the threat from militants on his doorstep. Then, 10 days ago, the former oil trader turned militia commander issued a call to arms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere the Taliban go, they bring destruction, and they are one kilometre away from my village,\u201d he told the Guardian. \u201cWe decided to respond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/01\/afghan-civilians-forced-to-fight-taliban-as-foreign-troops-depart\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizens react to spiralling violence with militants seizing at least 50 of county\u2019s nearly 400 districts since MayHaji Ghoulam Farouq Siawshani watched the Taliban rampage across northern Afghanistan this month, weighing up the threat from militants o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2288,"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":[46,61,44,45,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","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\/33626","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\/2288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33627,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33626\/revisions\/33627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}