{"id":35040,"date":"2021-08-11T02:26:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T17:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/10\/taliban-fighters-capture-afghan-city-at-strategic-junction-north-of-kabul"},"modified":"2021-08-11T02:26:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T17:26:04","slug":"taliban-fighters-capture-afghan-city-at-strategic-junction-north-of-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35040","title":{"rendered":"Taliban fighters capture Afghan city at strategic junction north of Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Pul-e-Khumri say government forces abandoned compounds during heady fighting<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/taliban\">Taliban <\/a>have captured the key Afghan city of Pul-e-Khumri, 140 miles north of the capital Kabul, giving the insurgents control of a strategic road junction linking Kabul to the north and west, according to insurgents and local officials.<\/p>\n<p>Two officials in the city told the Guardian it fell to Taliban after heavy fighting on Tuesday, with officials and security forces abandoning their compounds.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/10\/taliban-fighters-capture-afghan-city-at-strategic-junction-north-of-kabul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Pul-e-Khumri say government forces abandoned compounds during heady fightingThe Taliban have captured the key Afghan city of Pul-e-Khumri, 140 miles north of the capital Kabul, giving the insurgents control of a strategic road junction lin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2362,"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":[46,470,494,61,44,84,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-nato","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-united-nations","category-us-news","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\/35040","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\/2362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35041,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35040\/revisions\/35041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}