{"id":34916,"date":"2021-08-07T22:59:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T13:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/07\/taliban-seize-second-afghan-provincial-capital-in-two-days-sheberghan"},"modified":"2021-08-08T05:09:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T20:09:21","slug":"taliban-seize-second-afghan-provincial-capital-in-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34916","title":{"rendered":"Taliban seize second Afghan provincial capital in two days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airport of Sheberghan is only part of northern city to remain under government control following assault by insurgents<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have captured a second provincial capital in Afghanistan a day after they took over the south-western financial hub of Zaranj, as the insurgent group continued to advance in urban parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban fighters armed with heavy weapons overran the strategic city of Sheberghan, the capital of the northern Jawzjan province, on Saturday afternoon. The city was considered a stronghold of the notorious Afghan warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, who is believed to be in Kabul after returning to Afghanistan this week following medical treatment in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/07\/taliban-seize-second-afghan-provincial-capital-in-two-days-sheberghan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airport of Sheberghan is only part of northern city to remain under government control following assault by insurgentsThe Taliban have captured a second provincial capital in Afghanistan a day after they took over the south-western financial hub of Zar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1503,"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":[46,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","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\/34916","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\/1503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34924,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34916\/revisions\/34924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}