{"id":33729,"date":"2021-07-05T02:01:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T17:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/04\/hundreds-of-afghan-security-forces-flee-as-districts-fall-to-taliban"},"modified":"2021-07-05T02:01:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T17:01:41","slug":"hundreds-of-afghan-security-forces-flee-as-districts-fall-to-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33729","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Afghan security forces flee as districts fall to Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Militants\u2019 advance continues as Britain nears end of its two-decade deployment to country<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban\u2019s rapid advance through northern Afghanistan continued on Sunday with more than a dozen districts falling to the militants, as Britain entered the final days of its two-decade deployment to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>More than 300 members of the Afghan security forces fled across the border into Tajikistan to escape the militants, and Badakhshan and Takhar provinces are now largely under Taliban control, beyond the respective regional capitals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/04\/hundreds-of-afghan-security-forces-flee-as-districts-fall-to-taliban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Militants\u2019 advance continues as Britain nears end of its two-decade deployment to countryThe Taliban\u2019s rapid advance through northern Afghanistan continued on Sunday with more than a dozen districts falling to the militants, as Britain entered the fina&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2295,"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":[46,997,4,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-defence-policy","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-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\/33729","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\/2295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33730,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33729\/revisions\/33730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}