{"id":34096,"date":"2021-07-15T18:07:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T09:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/15\/us-aims-to-woo-central-asian-leaders-for-secure-base-near-afghanistan"},"modified":"2021-07-16T01:48:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T16:48:11","slug":"us-aims-to-woo-central-asian-leaders-for-secure-base-near-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34096","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan\u2019s neighbours step up efforts to prevent civil war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rapid Taliban advances lead to meeting in Uzbekistan of over a dozen leaders and foreign ministers<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan\u2019s neighbours are stepping up efforts to prevent the country sliding into a full-blown civil war after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/13\/afghanistan-stunned-by-scale-and-speed-of-security-forces-collapse\">rapid Taliban advance<\/a> that caught the government in Kabul, its allies and much of the region by surprise.<\/p>\n<p>At a meeting in Uzbekistan that opens on Friday, more than a dozen leaders and foreign ministers from regional powers will gather with the Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, and senior American diplomats including the top US envoy for peace, Zalmay Khalilzad.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/15\/us-aims-to-woo-central-asian-leaders-for-secure-base-near-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapid Taliban advances lead to meeting in Uzbekistan of over a dozen leaders and foreign ministersAfghanistan\u2019s neighbours are stepping up efforts to prevent the country sliding into a full-blown civil war after a rapid Taliban advance that caught the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[46,1854,61,44,47,856,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-biden-administration","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-news","category-uzbekistan","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\/34096","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34098,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34096\/revisions\/34098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}