{"id":35215,"date":"2021-08-15T03:38:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T18:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/14\/afghans-flee-kabul-in-panic-as-taliban-forces-close-in"},"modified":"2021-08-15T06:42:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T21:42:30","slug":"afghans-flee-kabul-in-panic-as-taliban-forces-close-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35215","title":{"rendered":"Last major Afghan city in the north falls to the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mazar-i-Sharif was a government stronghold and its loss leaves only Kabul and another city unconquered<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban captured Mazar-i-Sharif, the country\u2019s fourth-largest city and the government\u2019s last major stronghold in the north on Saturday, as they tightened their grip on the country and closed in on Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>The US president, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/14\/joe-biden-afghanistan-crisis-blame-game\">Joe Biden, said America would not reverse its decision<\/a> to leave Afghanistan, despite the Taliban advances. \u201cI was the fourth president to preside over an American troop presence in Afghanistan \u2013 two Republicans, two Democrats. I would not, and will not, pass this war on to a fifth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/14\/afghans-flee-kabul-in-panic-as-taliban-forces-close-in\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mazar-i-Sharif was a government stronghold and its loss leaves only Kabul and another city unconqueredThe Taliban captured Mazar-i-Sharif, the country\u2019s fourth-largest city and the government\u2019s last major stronghold in the north on Saturday, as they ti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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":[46,621,531,939,494,61,44,84,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ashraf-ghani","category-boris-johnson","category-joe-biden","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-united-nations","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\/35215","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35227,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35215\/revisions\/35227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}