{"id":35293,"date":"2021-08-16T10:43:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T01:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/kabul-airport-chaos-and-panic-as-afghans-and-foreigners-attempt-to-flee-the-capital"},"modified":"2021-08-16T14:02:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T05:02:30","slug":"kabul-airport-chaos-and-panic-as-afghans-and-foreigners-attempt-to-flee-the-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35293","title":{"rendered":"Kabul airport: chaos and panic as Afghans and foreigners attempt to flee the capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Taliban now in control, large numbers of people have massed at Hamid Karzai airport as foreign embassies evacuate<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/16\/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-evacuation-live-news-updates\">Taliban spokesman claims \u2018war is over\u2019 \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thousands of Afghans and foreign nationals have surged on to the tarmac at Kabul airport seeking a place on a flight out of the country, amid chaotic scenes that unfolded as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/the-fall-of-kabul-a-20-year-mission-collapses-in-a-single-day\">Taliban took control of the city<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With the Taliban installed in the presidential palace and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/15\/afghanistan-taliban-close-in-on-kabul-as-last-government-stronghold-in-north-falls\">elected president having fled the country<\/a>, access to Hamid Karzai airport, five kilometres from the centre of the capital, was possible only through Taliban checkpoints. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/kabul-airport-chaos-and-panic-as-afghans-and-foreigners-attempt-to-flee-the-capital\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Taliban now in control, large numbers of people have massed at Hamid Karzai airport as foreign embassies evacuateTaliban spokesman claims \u2018war is over\u2019 \u2013 latest updatesThousands of Afghans and foreign nationals have surged on to the tarmac at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"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":[46,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/35293","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35308,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35293\/revisions\/35308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}