{"id":35295,"date":"2021-08-16T09:01:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T00:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/timeline-the-talibans-sweeping-offensive-in-afghanistan"},"modified":"2021-08-16T09:01:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T00:01:27","slug":"timeline-the-talibans-sweeping-offensive-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35295","title":{"rendered":"Timeline: the Taliban\u2019s sweeping offensive in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/16\/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-evacuation-live-news-updates\">Live coverage: Taliban say \u2018The war is over\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The fall of Kabul to the Taliban caps off a swift military campaign as US-led foreign forces pulled out of the country<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have entered Afghanistan\u2019s capital Kabul and taken over the presidential palace, capping a sweeping military campaign as US-led foreign forces pull out of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a look at the lightning offensive that began in May:<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/timeline-the-talibans-sweeping-offensive-in-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live coverage: Taliban say \u2018The war is over\u2019The fall of Kabul to the Taliban caps off a swift military campaign as US-led foreign forces pulled out of the countryThe Taliban have entered Afghanistan\u2019s capital Kabul and taken over the presidential palac&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[46,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","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\/35295","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35320,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35295\/revisions\/35320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}