{"id":35374,"date":"2021-08-17T18:11:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T09:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/aug\/17\/dominic-raab-says-no-one-predicted-taliban-takeover-of-afghanistan-video"},"modified":"2021-08-17T18:11:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T09:11:38","slug":"dominic-raab-says-no-one-predicted-taliban-takeover-of-afghanistan-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35374","title":{"rendered":"Dominic Raab says no one predicted Taliban takeover of Afghanistan \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was impossible to predict the Taliban would retake Afghanistan so swiftly after the withdrawal of international troops,&nbsp;Dominic Raab&nbsp;has said, arguing: \u2018No one saw this coming.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media following his return from holiday, after chaotic and deadly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/kabul-airport-chaos-and-panic-as-afghans-and-foreigners-attempt-to-flee-the-capital\">scenes at Kabul airport<\/a>&nbsp;on Sunday, the UK foreign secretary said US and British troops had stabilised the airport, allowing evacuations to resume<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/17\/no-one-saw-this-coming-raab-taliban-rapid-afghan-takeover\">No one saw this coming, Raab says of Taliban\u2019s rapid Afghan takeover<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/aug\/17\/dominic-raab-says-no-one-predicted-taliban-takeover-of-afghanistan-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was impossible to predict the Taliban would retake Afghanistan so swiftly after the withdrawal of international troops,&nbsp;Dominic Raab&nbsp;has said, arguing: \u2018No one saw this coming.\u2019Speaking to the media following his return from holiday, after&#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":[46,950,319,494,61,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-dominic-raab","category-foreign-policy","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35374","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=35374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35375,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35374\/revisions\/35375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}