{"id":35479,"date":"2021-08-19T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T02:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/18\/biden-us-troops-afghanistan-31-august-deadline"},"modified":"2021-08-19T16:51:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T07:51:04","slug":"biden-says-us-troops-may-stay-in-afghanistan-beyond-31-august-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35479","title":{"rendered":"Biden says US troops may stay in Afghanistan beyond 31 August deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president tells ABC: \u2018We\u2019re going to stay until we get them all out\u2019 amid continued chaotic scenes at Kabul airport as thousands seek to flee<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden has said US troops may stay past a 31 August deadline so as to evacuate all Americans from Afghanistan, and defended the withdrawal, saying there was no way for the US to pull out \u201cwithout chaos ensuing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As critics in the US and abroad questioned his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/16\/afghanistan-withdrawal-joe-biden-crisis\">handling of the withdrawal<\/a>, the president said in his first on-camera interview since the Taliban took Kabul that troops would stay in the country to get American citizens out.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/18\/biden-us-troops-afghanistan-31-august-deadline\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president tells ABC: \u2018We\u2019re going to stay until we get them all out\u2019 amid continued chaotic scenes at Kabul airport as thousands seek to fleeJoe Biden has said US troops may stay past a 31 August deadline so as to evacuate all Americans from Afghani&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[46,939,61,45,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-joe-biden","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","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\/35479","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35497,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35479\/revisions\/35497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}