{"id":35052,"date":"2021-08-11T14:44:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T05:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/11\/joe-biden-urges-afghans-to-fight-for-their-nation-as-taliban-advance-continues"},"modified":"2021-08-11T21:14:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T12:14:11","slug":"joe-biden-urges-afghans-to-fight-for-their-nation-as-taliban-advance-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35052","title":{"rendered":"Afghan government could fall to Taliban \u2018in 90 days\u2019 say US officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kabul embassies step up evacuation plans as Biden urges Afghan leaders to \u2018fight for their nation\u2019<\/p>\n<p>US officials believe Afghanistan\u2019s government could fall in 90 days, with Kabul isolated in as little as a month, as Joe Biden urged Afghan leaders to \u201cfight for their nation\u201d following rapid advances by the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>With foreign embassies in Kabul, including the US embassy, discreetly accelerating evacuation planning in the event of the situation worsening, the Taliban\u2019s lightning succession of victories on the battlefield has caught out western capitals that have long sustained the Afghan government.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/11\/joe-biden-urges-afghans-to-fight-for-their-nation-as-taliban-advance-continues\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kabul embassies step up evacuation plans as Biden urges Afghan leaders to \u2018fight for their nation\u2019US officials believe Afghanistan\u2019s government could fall in 90 days, with Kabul isolated in as little as a month, as Joe Biden urged Afghan leaders to \u201cfi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[46,1854,939,61,44,45,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-biden-administration","category-joe-biden","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-foreign-policy","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35052","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35075,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35052\/revisions\/35075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}