{"id":33669,"date":"2021-07-03T01:03:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T16:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/02\/uk-to-bring-home-last-remaining-troops-in-afghanistan-this-weekend"},"modified":"2021-07-03T01:03:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T16:03:01","slug":"uk-to-bring-home-last-remaining-troops-in-afghanistan-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33669","title":{"rendered":"UK to bring home last remaining troops in Afghanistan this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sources say end to official role in two-decades long conflict imminent despite resurgent Taliban <\/p>\n<p>Britain is expected to bring the last of its regular troops home from Afghanistan over the weekend, ending its official role in a two-decades long conflict even though the Taliban are resurgent across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Defence sources told the Guardian that the exit of the last of the UK\u2019s 750 soldiers \u2013 part of a Nato stabilisation and training mission \u2013 is expected to be complete \u201cin the next few days\u201d before formal announcements.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/02\/uk-to-bring-home-last-remaining-troops-in-afghanistan-this-weekend\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources say end to official role in two-decades long conflict imminent despite resurgent Taliban Britain is expected to bring the last of its regular troops home from Afghanistan over the weekend, ending its official role in a two-decades long conflict&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2293,"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":[46,937,938,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-british-army","category-military","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33669","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\/2293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33670,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33669\/revisions\/33670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}