{"id":35545,"date":"2021-08-20T17:58:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T08:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/20\/ex-mi5-chief-warns-isis-take-advantage-afghanistan-fall-jonathan-evans"},"modified":"2021-08-20T17:58:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T08:58:46","slug":"ex-mi5-chief-warns-isis-could-take-advantage-of-afghanistans-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35545","title":{"rendered":"Ex-MI5 chief warns Isis could take advantage of Afghanistan\u2019s fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Evans also says ability to intervene with special forces in Afghanistan should be retained<\/p>\n<p>A former head of MI5 has said the fall of most of Afghanistan to the Taliban opens up \u201coperating space\u201d for terrorist groups such as Islamic State that will draw a psychological boost from the failure of western power.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Evans said the ability to intervene militarily in Afghanistan again \u2013 though with special forces rather than in a \u201cfull sense\u201d \u2013 had to be preserved and the UK government should also look to speak to the Taliban where opportunities arose.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/20\/ex-mi5-chief-warns-isis-take-advantage-afghanistan-fall-jonathan-evans\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Evans also says ability to intervene with special forces in Afghanistan should be retainedA former head of MI5 has said the fall of most of Afghanistan to the Taliban opens up \u201coperating space\u201d for terrorist groups such as Islamic State that w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"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":[46,471,61,44,52,476,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-islamic-state","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","category-uk-security-and-counter-terrorism","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35545","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\/285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35546,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35545\/revisions\/35546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}