{"id":34880,"date":"2021-08-07T05:54:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T20:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/06\/foreign-office-tells-britons-in-afghanistan-to-make-their-own-exit"},"modified":"2021-08-07T05:54:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T20:54:15","slug":"foreign-office-tells-britons-in-afghanistan-to-leave-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34880","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Office tells Britons in Afghanistan to leave immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FCDO advises UK nationals to leave in the face of rising Taliban threat but stresses limits of British consular help<\/p>\n<p>Ministers are advising all UK nationals in Afghanistan to leave the country because of the \u201cworsening security situation\u201d but have warned people \u201cnot to rely\u201d on the Foreign Office for evacuations.<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office\u2019s website was updated on Friday, advising against all travel to Afghanistan. The change in advice comes in the face of growing turmoil in Afghanistan, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/01\/resurgent-taliban-escalates-nationwide-offensive-in-afghanistan\">Taliban forces sweep across the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/06\/foreign-office-tells-britons-in-afghanistan-to-make-their-own-exit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FCDO advises UK nationals to leave in the face of rising Taliban threat but stresses limits of British consular helpMinisters are advising all UK nationals in Afghanistan to leave the country because of the \u201cworsening security situation\u201d but have warne&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":358,"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":[46,1879,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","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\/34880","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\/358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34881,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34880\/revisions\/34881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}