{"id":34987,"date":"2021-08-10T02:20:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/09\/taliban-capture-aibak-sixth-provincial-capital-northern-afghanistan"},"modified":"2021-08-10T02:20:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:20:32","slug":"taliban-capture-sixth-provincial-capital-in-northern-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34987","title":{"rendered":"Taliban capture sixth provincial capital in northern Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fighters overrun Aibak without meeting resistance, leaving pro-government forces in region cut off<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban captured another provincial capital on Monday and were pressing on the biggest city in the region, Mazar-i-Sharif, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/08\/taliban-seize-symbolic-victory-with-capture-of-kunduz\">a stunning weekend offensive <\/a>in which the insurgents have overrun a series of urban centres across northern Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Armed fighters swept into the city of Aibak without meeting any resistance. The deputy chief of Samangan province confirmed that the local governor had withdrawn his soldiers in order to protect the civilian population. The Taliban were in \u201cfull control\u201d, Sefatullah Samangani said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/09\/taliban-capture-aibak-sixth-provincial-capital-northern-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fighters overrun Aibak without meeting resistance, leaving pro-government forces in region cut offThe Taliban captured another provincial capital on Monday and were pressing on the biggest city in the region, Mazar-i-Sharif, following a stunning weeken&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2371,"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-34987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","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\/34987","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\/2371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34988,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34987\/revisions\/34988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}