{"id":35306,"date":"2021-08-16T15:06:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T06:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/aug\/16\/kabul-falls-to-the-taliban-as-thousands-of-afghans-try-to-flee-video-report"},"modified":"2021-08-16T15:06:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T06:06:44","slug":"kabul-falls-to-the-taliban-as-thousands-of-afghans-try-to-flee-video-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35306","title":{"rendered":"Kabul falls to the Taliban as thousands of Afghans try to flee \u2013 video report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban has declared that&nbsp;Afghanistan&nbsp;is under their control after they took over the presidential palace just hours after president Ashraf Ghani fled the country. The Islamist militants encountered no resistance as they took back power two decades after they were overthrown by a US-led invasion. Chaotic scenes erupted at Hamid Karzai International Airport with thousands flooding the tarmac desperate the get a flight out of the country.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/16\/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-evacuation-live-news-updates\">Afghanistan live news: desperate crowds converge on Kabul airport as Taliban declare \u2018war is over\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/taliban-declares-war-is-over-in-afghanistan-as-us-led-forces-exit-kabul\">Taliban declares \u2018war is over in Afghanistan\u2019 as foreign powers exit Kabul<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/the-fall-of-kabul-a-20-year-mission-collapses-in-a-single-day\">The fall of Kabul: a 20-year mission collapses in a single day<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/aug\/16\/kabul-falls-to-the-taliban-as-thousands-of-afghans-try-to-flee-video-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban has declared that&nbsp;Afghanistan&nbsp;is under their control after they took over the presidential palace just hours after president Ashraf Ghani fled the country. The Islamist militants encountered no resistance as they took back power t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[46,2003,531,61,44,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-antony-blinken","category-boris-johnson","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","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\/35306","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35307,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35306\/revisions\/35307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}