{"id":35378,"date":"2021-08-17T17:55:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T08:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2021\/aug\/17\/the-fall-of-afghanistan-in-pictures"},"modified":"2021-08-17T17:55:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T08:55:16","slug":"evacuations-continue-in-afghanistan-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35378","title":{"rendered":"Evacuations continue in Afghanistan \u2013 in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Taliban\u2019s military takeover of the country, westerners continue to leave. Afghans hoping to escape Taliban rule have gathered in Kabul, with many making desperate attempts to flee. There was chaos at the airport, where troops used guns and helicopters to clear the runways, and several people died in frantic last-minute attempts to escape by clinging to departing planes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/17\/afghanistan-live-news-us-says-kabul-airport-reopens-as-biden-defends-withdrawal\">Afghanistan \u2013 follow live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/16\/afghanistan-withdrawal-joe-biden-crisis\">Biden stands \u2018squarely behind\u2019 decision to withdraw<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2021\/aug\/17\/the-fall-of-afghanistan-in-pictures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Taliban\u2019s military takeover of the country, westerners continue to leave. Afghans hoping to escape Taliban rule have gathered in Kabul, with many making desperate attempts to flee. There was chaos at the airport, where troops used guns an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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":[46,91,92,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-art-and-design","category-photography","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\/35378","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35379,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35378\/revisions\/35379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}