{"id":33832,"date":"2021-07-07T21:33:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T12:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/07\/taliban-attack-city-as-us-ramps-up-afghanistan-withdrawal"},"modified":"2021-07-07T21:33:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T12:33:55","slug":"taliban-attack-city-as-us-ramps-up-afghanistan-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33832","title":{"rendered":"Taliban attack city as US ramps up Afghanistan withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fierce fighting reported in western city of Qala-i-Naw, with militants seizing police HQ and spy offices<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban launched an assault on a provincial capital in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the first since the US military began its final drawdown of troops from the country, as insurgents press on with a blistering offensive.<\/p>\n<p>Fierce fighting erupted in the western city of Qala-i-Naw, the capital of Badghis, with the militants seizing police headquarters and offices of the country\u2019s spy agency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/07\/taliban-attack-city-as-us-ramps-up-afghanistan-withdrawal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fierce fighting reported in western city of Qala-i-Naw, with militants seizing police HQ and spy officesThe Taliban launched an assault on a provincial capital in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the first since the US military began its final drawdown of tro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[46,61,44,45,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/33832","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33833,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33832\/revisions\/33833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}