{"id":34960,"date":"2021-08-09T02:13:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T17:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/08\/afghanistan-could-become-terrorist-base-again-uk-general-warns"},"modified":"2021-08-09T02:13:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T17:13:44","slug":"afghanistan-could-become-terrorist-base-again-uk-general-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34960","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan could become terrorist base again, UK general warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Richard Barrons says withdrawal of western troops a &#8216;strategic mistake\u2019 as Taliban make territorial gains<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan could once again become a base for international terrorism, according to a former senior UK military commander who has described the withdrawal of western troops as a \u201cstrategic mistake\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As the Taliban continued to make sweeping territorial gains, Gen Sir Richard Barrons warned that attacks in Europe could be the outcome of groups re-establishing themselves in the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/08\/afghanistan-could-become-terrorist-base-again-uk-general-warns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Richard Barrons says withdrawal of western troops a &#8216;strategic mistake\u2019 as Taliban make territorial gainsAfghanistan could once again become a base for international terrorism, according to a former senior UK military commander who has described th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"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":[46,938,476],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-military","category-uk-security-and-counter-terrorism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34960","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\/285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34961,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34960\/revisions\/34961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}