{"id":35221,"date":"2021-08-15T09:27:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T00:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/15\/afghanistan-taliban-close-in-on-kabul-as-last-government-stronghold-in-north-falls"},"modified":"2021-08-15T19:50:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T10:50:33","slug":"afghanistan-taliban-close-in-on-kabul-as-last-government-stronghold-in-north-falls-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35221","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: Kabul to shift power to \u2018transitional administration\u2019 after Taliban enter city \u2013 live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban negotiators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/15\/afghanistan-taliban-close-in-on-kabul-as-last-government-stronghold-in-north-falls?page=with:block-6118dccf8f08aeaec2f1fa16#block-6118dccf8f08aeaec2f1fa16\">heading to presidential palace<\/a> to prepare for transfer of power after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/15\/afghanistan-taliban-close-in-on-kabul-as-last-government-stronghold-in-north-falls?page=with:block-6118c7d58f0826eff3be5933#block-6118c7d58f0826eff3be5933\">entering outskirts of Kabul<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/taliban-poised-to-take-control-of-kabul-as-us-evacuates-embassy\">Taliban poised to take control of Kabul as US evacuates embassy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/14\/afghans-flee-kabul-in-panic-as-taliban-forces-close-in\">Report: last major Afghan city in the north falls to the Taliban<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/afghans-linked-to-british-beg-please-help-save-our-lives-from-taliban\">Afghans linked to British beg: Please help save our lives from Taliban<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/aug\/15\/boris-johnson-urged-to-recall-parliament-over-afghanistan-crisis\">Boris Johnson to recall parliament over Afghanistan crisis<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-08-15T10:44:50.325Z\">11.44am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>The Afghan Journalist, <strong>Bilal Sawary<\/strong>, has told BBC Radio 4 has called the imminent transition from Ghani\u2019s government to a Taliban-led administration \u201ca chaotic ending to years of massive investment of blood and treasure\u201d.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cA chaotic ending to years of massive investment of blood and treasure\u201d. \u201cWe will have to see how the transition takes place\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bsarwary?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bsarwary<\/a> tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCRadio4?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BBCRadio4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/kabul?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#kabul<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Afghan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Afghan<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hearing Taliban entering Kabul takes me back to Nov 2001 watching them flee Kabul at the tip of America\u2019s spear, bringing hope to women, children and all who want peace, education and freedom from fundamentalist terror. Now progress and hope die again. Reckless American gamble?<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-08-15T10:36:57.239Z\">11.36am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s national security correspondent, Kylie Atwood, reports that the US will be withdrawing <strong tabindex=\"-1\">all <\/strong>of its embassy and security personnel over the next 72 hours. <\/p>\n<p>US president Joe Biden earlier authorised an additional 1,000 US troops for deployment to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/afghanistan\">Afghanistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/15\/afghanistan-taliban-close-in-on-kabul-as-last-government-stronghold-in-north-falls\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban negotiators heading to presidential palace to prepare for transfer of power after entering outskirts of KabulTaliban poised to take control of Kabul as US evacuates embassyReport: last major Afghan city in the north falls to the TalibanAfghans &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"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":[46,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35221","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\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35221"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35246,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35221\/revisions\/35246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}