{"id":35175,"date":"2021-08-14T06:15:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T21:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/13\/afghanistan-taliban-pentagon-deeply-concerned"},"modified":"2021-08-14T06:15:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T21:15:03","slug":"pentagon-deeply-concerned-by-sweeping-taliban-gains-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35175","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon \u2018deeply concerned\u2019 by sweeping Taliban gains in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 US military says Kabul not under immediate threat<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Taliban insurgents seize four more regional capitals<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon is \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d about the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, as the Taliban completed their sweep of Afghanistan\u2019s south on Friday, taking four more provincial capitals in a lightning offensive that brought them closer to the capital, Kabul, just weeks before the US is set to officially end its two-decade war.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/13\/seven-days-that-shook-afghanistan-how-city-after-city-fell-to-the-taliban\">Seven days that shook Afghanistan: how city after city fell to the Taliban<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/13\/afghanistan-taliban-pentagon-deeply-concerned\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 US military says Kabul not under immediate threat\u2022 Taliban insurgents seize four more regional capitalsThe Pentagon is \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d about the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, as the Taliban completed their sweep of Afghanistan\u2019s south on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2384,"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":[46,61,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-military","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\/35175","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\/2384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35176,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35175\/revisions\/35176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}