{"id":35386,"date":"2021-08-17T17:02:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T08:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/17\/no-one-saw-this-coming-raab-taliban-rapid-afghan-takeover"},"modified":"2021-08-17T17:02:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T08:02:37","slug":"no-one-saw-this-coming-raab-says-of-talibans-rapid-afghan-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35386","title":{"rendered":"No one saw this coming, Raab says of Taliban\u2019s rapid Afghan takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK foreign secretary claims swift collapse was impossible to predict, as he says evacuations have resumed<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><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 latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was impossible to predict the Taliban would retake Afghanistan so swiftly after the withdrawal of international troops, Dominic Raab has said, arguing \u201cno one saw this coming\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media following his return from holiday, after chaotic and deadly <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> on Sunday, the UK foreign secretary said US and British troops had stabilised the airport, allowing evacuations to resume.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/17\/no-one-saw-this-coming-raab-taliban-rapid-afghan-takeover\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK foreign secretary claims swift collapse was impossible to predict, as he says evacuations have resumedAfghanistan \u2013 latest updatesIt was impossible to predict the Taliban would retake Afghanistan so swiftly after the withdrawal of international troo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1457,"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":[46,950,319,4,494,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-dominic-raab","category-foreign-policy","category-politics","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-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\/35386","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\/1457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35387,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35386\/revisions\/35387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}