{"id":35193,"date":"2021-08-14T14:03:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T05:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/14\/us-troops-start-to-arrive-for-afghanistan-evacuation-as-taliban-close-in-on-kabul"},"modified":"2021-08-14T14:03:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T05:03:49","slug":"us-troops-start-to-arrive-for-afghanistan-evacuation-as-taliban-close-in-on-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35193","title":{"rendered":"US troops start to arrive for Afghanistan evacuation as Taliban close in on Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of western nationals and vulnerable Afghans to be airlifted out of Kabul as Taliban launch major assault on northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif<\/p>\n<p>US troops have begun arriving in Afghanistan to help evacuate thousands of people, including embassy staff, and Afghans and their families who worked for them as a sweeping Taliban offensive draws ever nearer to Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>Diplomats and nationals from a host of western countries are scrambling to leave the capital, with insurgent fighters now camped just 50km (30 miles) away after a campaign that has seen provincial capitals swiftly fall.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/14\/us-troops-start-to-arrive-for-afghanistan-evacuation-as-taliban-close-in-on-kabul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of western nationals and vulnerable Afghans to be airlifted out of Kabul as Taliban launch major assault on northern city of Mazar-i-SharifUS troops have begun arriving in Afghanistan to help evacuate thousands of people, including embassy st&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-military","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35193","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35194,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35193\/revisions\/35194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}