{"id":35477,"date":"2021-08-19T12:27:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T03:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/19\/afghanistan-live-news-taliban-kabul-us-troops-joe-biden-afghan-crisis-latest-updates"},"modified":"2021-08-19T15:05:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T06:05:05","slug":"afghanistan-live-news-us-troops-may-stay-past-31-august-says-biden-taliban-official-rules-out-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35477","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan live news: US troops may stay past 31 August, says Biden; Taliban official rules out democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/19\/afghanistan-live-news-taliban-kabul-us-troops-joe-biden-afghan-crisis-latest-updates?page=with:block-611d91d68f08e83ac7bdf053#block-611d91d68f08e83ac7bdf053\">\u2018If there\u2019s American citizens left [after 31 August], we\u2019re gonna stay till we get them all out,\u2019 says Biden<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/19\/afghanistan-live-news-taliban-kabul-us-troops-joe-biden-afghan-crisis-latest-updates?page=with:block-611d90d18f0865f6db860f98#block-611d90d18f0865f6db860f98\">\u2018There will be no democratic system at all because it does not have any base in our country,\u2019 says Taliban official<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/18\/afghan-ex-president-steps-in-for-talks-with-taliban-over-peaceful-transfer-of-power\">Afghan ex-president in talks with Taliban over transfer of power<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/18\/boris-johnson-defends-uk-afghanistan-policy-in-emergency-debate\">Tories rebuke Boris Johnson over \u2018catastrophic\u2019 Afghanistan failure<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/18\/taliban-face-financial-crisis-without-access-to-foreign-reserves\">Analysis: Taliban face financial crisis without access to foreign reserves<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/aug\/18\/scholarship-alumni-urge-no-10-speed-up-evacuation-afghan-students\">Scholarship alumni urge No 10 to speed up evacuation of students<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/18\/afghanistan-kabul-airport-escape-journalist\">\u2018We kept hearing gunshots\u2019: my chaotic escape from Kabul\u2019s airport<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-08-19T06:05:05.896Z\">7.05am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s it from me, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/helenrsullivan\">Helen Sullivan<\/a>, for today. We\u2019re pausing this blog for a while, but in the meantime here is our latest story on recent developments: <\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/18\/biden-us-troops-afghanistan-31-august-deadline\">Biden says US troops may stay in Afghanistan beyond 31 August deadline<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-08-19T06:00:46.138Z\">7.00am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Reuters is reporting that, according to an unnamed Taliban official, women will be consulted and offered role in the new Afghan administration, as will some people from former regimes. <\/p>\n<p>Consultative meetings between Taliban leaders and the former Afghan government leaders are continuing, according to the official. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/19\/afghanistan-live-news-taliban-kabul-us-troops-joe-biden-afghan-crisis-latest-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018If there\u2019s American citizens left [after 31 August], we\u2019re gonna stay till we get them all out,\u2019 says Biden; \u2018There will be no democratic system at all because it does not have any base in our country,\u2019 says Taliban officialAfghan ex-president in talk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"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-35477","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\/35477","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\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35502,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35477\/revisions\/35502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}