{"id":35291,"date":"2021-08-16T10:56:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T01:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/taliban-declares-war-is-over-in-afghanistan-as-us-led-forces-exit-kabul"},"modified":"2021-08-16T10:56:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T01:56:07","slug":"taliban-declares-war-is-over-in-afghanistan-as-us-led-forces-exit-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35291","title":{"rendered":"Taliban declares \u2018war is over in Afghanistan\u2019 as US-led forces exit Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swift arrival of the Taliban brings the Islamist militants close to taking over the country two decades after they were overthrown by a US-led invasion<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/16\/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-evacuation-live-news-updates\">Latest updates from Kabul<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Taliban has declared the war in Afghanistan is over after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/the-fall-of-kabul-a-20-year-mission-collapses-in-a-single-day\">insurgents took control of the presidential palace <\/a>in Kabul as US-led forces departed and Western nations scrambled to evacuate their citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman Mohammad Naeem said in interviews with Al Jazeera TV the Taliban did not want to live in isolation. He said the group respected women\u2019s and minorities\u2019 rights and freedom of expression within Sharia law.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/taliban-declares-war-is-over-in-afghanistan-as-us-led-forces-exit-kabul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swift arrival of the Taliban brings the Islamist militants close to taking over the country two decades after they were overthrown by a US-led invasionLatest updates from Kabul The Taliban has declared the war in Afghanistan is over after insurgents to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[46,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/35291","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35319,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35291\/revisions\/35319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}