{"id":33867,"date":"2021-07-08T23:16:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T14:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/jul\/08\/boris-johnson-announces-end-to-uk-military-mission-in-afghanistan-video"},"modified":"2021-07-08T23:16:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T14:16:22","slug":"boris-johnson-announces-end-to-uk-military-mission-in-afghanistan-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33867","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson announces end to UK military mission in Afghanistan \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 &#8216;war on terror&#8217;. Speaking in the Commons, the prime minister confirmed to MPs that the intervention, which claimed the lives of 457 British soldiers, would end even as the insurgent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/07\/taliban-attack-city-as-us-ramps-up-afghanistan-withdrawal\">Taliban have been rapidly gaining territory<\/a>&nbsp;in rural areas as UK and other forces withdraw<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/jul\/08\/boris-johnson-announces-end-uk-military-mission-afghanistan\">Boris Johnson announces end to UK military mission in Afghanistan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/07\/armed-afghan-women-take-to-streets-in-show-of-defiance-against-taliban\">Armed Afghan women take to streets in show of defiance against Taliban<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/jul\/08\/boris-johnson-announces-end-to-uk-military-mission-in-afghanistan-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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 &#8216;war on terror&#8217;. Speaking in the Commons, the pri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[46,531,1879,938,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-boris-johnson","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-military","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/33867","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33868,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33867\/revisions\/33868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}