{"id":33775,"date":"2021-07-06T18:21:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T09:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/06\/afghan-anger-over-uss-sudden-silent-bagram-departure"},"modified":"2021-07-06T21:08:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T12:08:57","slug":"afghan-anger-over-uss-sudden-silent-bagram-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33775","title":{"rendered":"Afghan anger over US\u2019s sudden, silent Bagram departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Military officials say troops turned off power and slipped away without notifying new commander<\/p>\n<p>US forces plunged their main operating base in Afghanistan into darkness and abandoned it to looters, when they slipped away in the middle of the night after two decades without notifying their Afghan allies.<\/p>\n<p>The furtive departure from Bagram airbase, which is vital to the security of Kabul and holds around 5,000 prisoners, infuriated Afghans.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/06\/afghan-anger-over-uss-sudden-silent-bagram-departure\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military officials say troops turned off power and slipped away without notifying new commanderUS forces plunged their main operating base in Afghanistan into darkness and abandoned it to looters, when they slipped away in the middle of the night after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2297,"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":[46,61,45,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/33775","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\/2297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33802,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33775\/revisions\/33802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}