{"id":34700,"date":"2021-08-02T20:41:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T11:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/02\/commandos-deployed-afghanistan-forces-battle-taliban-control-of-cities"},"modified":"2021-08-03T03:33:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T18:33:08","slug":"commandos-deployed-as-afghan-forces-battle-taliban-for-control-of-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34700","title":{"rendered":"Afghan president blames \u2018hasty\u2019 US troop withdrawal for worsening violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashraf Ghani comments come as government forces battle to prevent Lashkar Gah falling to the Taliban<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan\u2019s president, Ashraf Ghani, has blamed the speedy withdrawal of US-led troops for the worsening violence in his country, as government forces battled to prevent provincial cities from falling to the Taliban in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/01\/resurgent-taliban-escalates-nationwide-offensive-in-afghanistan\">major escalation<\/a> in fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban fighters assaulted at least three provincial capitals overnight \u2013 Lashkar Gah, Kandahar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/31\/herat-residents-fear-taliban-in-their-homes-and-workplaces-as-it-masses-outside-city\">and Herat<\/a> \u2013 after a weekend of heavy fighting that resulted in thousands of civilians fleeing the advancing militants.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/02\/commandos-deployed-afghanistan-forces-battle-taliban-control-of-cities\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashraf Ghani comments come as government forces battle to prevent Lashkar Gah falling to the TalibanAfghanistan\u2019s president, Ashraf Ghani, has blamed the speedy withdrawal of US-led troops for the worsening violence in his country, as government forces&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-34700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34700","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34712,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34700\/revisions\/34712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}