{"id":33864,"date":"2021-07-09T01:51:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T16:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/08\/taliban-close-in-on-helmand-capital-as-uk-afghan-mission-ends"},"modified":"2021-07-09T01:51:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T16:51:44","slug":"taliban-close-in-on-helmand-capital-as-uk-afghan-mission-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33864","title":{"rendered":"Taliban close in on Helmand capital as UK Afghan mission ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lashkar Gah still under control of government forces but local activist says city is under siege<\/p>\n<p>As Boris Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/jul\/08\/boris-johnson-announces-end-uk-military-mission-afghanistan\">announced the end<\/a> of Britain\u2019s military mission in Afghanistan, Taliban fighters pressed in on the capital of Helmand province, once the centre of the UK\u2019s presence there.<\/p>\n<p>Militants are less than a mile from Lashkar Gah, now also home to tens of thousands of people who have fled the fighting or Taliban rule across the rest of the province, local officials said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/08\/taliban-close-in-on-helmand-capital-as-uk-afghan-mission-ends\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lashkar Gah still under control of government forces but local activist says city is under siegeAs Boris Johnson announced the end of Britain\u2019s military mission in Afghanistan, Taliban fighters pressed in on the capital of Helmand province, once the ce&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":523,"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":[46,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/33864","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\/523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33865,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33864\/revisions\/33865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}