{"id":33857,"date":"2021-07-08T21:26:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T12:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/jul\/08\/boris-johnson-announces-end-uk-military-mission-afghanistan"},"modified":"2021-07-08T23:53:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T14:53:12","slug":"boris-johnson-announces-end-to-uk-military-mission-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33857","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson announces end of UK military mission in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour says \u2018washing hands\u2019 of conflict now will lead to bloodier war and wider Taliban control<\/p>\n<p>Boris Johnson has announced the end of Britain\u2019s military mission in Afghanistan following a hasty and secretive exit of the last remaining troops 20 years after the post-9\/11 invasion that started the \u201cwar on terror\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister confirmed to MPs that the intervention, which claimed the lives of 457 British soldiers, would end even as the insurgent Taliban were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/07\/taliban-attack-city-as-us-ramps-up-afghanistan-withdrawal\">rapidly gaining territory<\/a> in rural areas and UK, US and other forces withdrew.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/jul\/08\/boris-johnson-announces-end-uk-military-mission-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour says \u2018washing hands\u2019 of conflict now will lead to bloodier war and wider Taliban controlBoris Johnson has announced the end of Britain\u2019s military mission in Afghanistan following a hasty and secretive exit of the last remaining troops 20 years a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"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":[46,531,319,1879,902,938,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-boris-johnson","category-foreign-policy","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-labour","category-military","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/33857","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\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33866,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33857\/revisions\/33866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}