{"id":35150,"date":"2021-08-13T22:45:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T13:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/13\/taliban-seize-four-more-provincial-capitals-in-afghanistan"},"modified":"2021-08-14T00:44:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T15:44:10","slug":"taliban-seize-four-more-provincial-capitals-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35150","title":{"rendered":"Taliban seize four more provincial capitals in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Insurgents\u2019 seemingly unstoppable advance continues as they close in  on Kabul<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban\u2019s seemingly unstoppable advance across Afghanistan continued on Friday, as insurgents took control of four more provincial capitals after their seizure on Thursday of Kandahar and Herat, the country\u2019s second and third largest cities.<\/p>\n<p>With Afghan government forces in disarray, and amid reports that the country\u2019s vice-president has fled, the Taliban are heading inexorably towards Kabul. They control more than two-thirds of the country, just as the US plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/13\/us-withdrawal-afghanistan-mistake-uk-defence-secretary-ben-wallace\">pull out its last remaining troops<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/13\/taliban-seize-four-more-provincial-capitals-in-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insurgents\u2019 seemingly unstoppable advance continues as they close in  on KabulThe Taliban\u2019s seemingly unstoppable advance across Afghanistan continued on Friday, as insurgents took control of four more provincial capitals after their seizure on Thursda&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1358,"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":[46,61,44,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/35150","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\/1358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35177,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35150\/revisions\/35177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}