{"id":33885,"date":"2021-07-09T16:44:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T07:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/09\/taliban-take-key-iran-afghanistan-border-crossing-joe-biden"},"modified":"2021-07-09T18:59:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T09:59:05","slug":"taliban-take-key-iran-afghanistan-border-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33885","title":{"rendered":"Taliban claim to hold 85% of Afghanistan after taking key border crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Militants capture Islam Qala on border with Iran amid sweeping offensive launched as US withdraws<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have claimed to be in control of 85% of Afghanistan, including a key border crossing with Iran, following a sweeping offensive launched as US troops pull out.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jul\/08\/joe-biden-afghanistan-military-pullout-ahead-of-schedule\">Joe Biden issued a staunch defence of the US withdrawal<\/a>, the Taliban said fighters had seized the border town of Islam Qala \u2013 completing an arc of territory from the Iranian border to China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/09\/taliban-take-key-iran-afghanistan-border-crossing-joe-biden\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Militants capture Islam Qala on border with Iran amid sweeping offensive launched as US withdrawsThe Taliban have claimed to be in control of 85% of Afghanistan, including a key border crossing with Iran, following a sweeping offensive launched as US t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":514,"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":[46,939,61,44,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-joe-biden","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/33885","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\/514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33899,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33885\/revisions\/33899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}