{"id":35096,"date":"2021-08-12T16:34:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T07:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/12\/afghanistan-taliban-lashkar-gah--army-chief-is-replaced"},"modified":"2021-08-12T20:09:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T11:09:45","slug":"taliban-take-strategic-ghazni-city-as-afghan-army-chief-is-replaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35096","title":{"rendered":"Taliban tighten grip on approaches to Kabul in Afghanistan offensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Insurgents capture Ghazni city, giving them control of approaches to capital from north and south<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have tightened their grip on the approaches to Kabul, taking control of a key city on the main road south as the threat to several other major urban areas escalated.<\/p>\n<p>The fall on Thursday night of Ghazni, 90 miles south of the capital and which sits on Highway 1 connecting Kabul and Kandahar, means the Taliban control the main strategic approaches from the north and south after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/10\/taliban-fighters-capture-afghan-city-at-strategic-junction-north-of-kabul\">fall of Pul-e Khumri<\/a> two days ago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/12\/afghanistan-taliban-lashkar-gah--army-chief-is-replaced\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insurgents capture Ghazni city, giving them control of approaches to capital from north and southThe Taliban have tightened their grip on the approaches to Kabul, taking control of a key city on the main road south as the threat to several other major &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[46,61,44,45,473],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35096","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35120,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35096\/revisions\/35120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}