{"id":35551,"date":"2021-08-20T14:21:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T05:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/aug\/20\/australian-forces-wont-leave-kabul-airport-to-help-citizens-blocked-at-taliban-checkpoints"},"modified":"2021-08-20T14:21:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T05:21:12","slug":"australian-forces-wont-leave-kabul-airport-to-help-citizens-blocked-at-taliban-checkpoints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35551","title":{"rendered":"Australian forces won\u2019t leave Kabul airport to help citizens blocked at Taliban checkpoints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Morrison says Australian troops would be put at \u2018great risk\u2019 if they were to engage in operations beyond Afghanistan\u2019s main airport<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Australian forces will not leave Kabul airport to help Australians blocked at Taliban checkpoints in the captured Afghan capital, after some were injured in the chaos on the road to the airport overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the new militant regime promising \u201csafe passage\u201d to those who wanted to flee, Airport Road leading to Kabul\u2019s international airfield, the only practicable way out of Afghanistan since the country fell to the Taliban, has been fortified with Taliban checkpoints, where gunmen are refusing to let people pass.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/aug\/20\/australian-forces-wont-leave-kabul-airport-to-help-citizens-blocked-at-taliban-checkpoints\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Morrison says Australian troops would be put at \u2018great risk\u2019 if they were to engage in operations beyond Afghanistan\u2019s main airportGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingAustralian forces will not leave Kabul airport to help Austral&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2427,"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":[46,43,645,324,386,61,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","category-scott-morrison","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35551","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\/2427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35552,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35551\/revisions\/35552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}