{"id":35625,"date":"2021-08-21T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T02:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/aug\/21\/the-talibans-return-to-power-in-afghanistan-will-be-a-boon-for-international-jihadism"},"modified":"2021-08-21T11:00:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T02:00:51","slug":"the-talibans-return-to-power-in-afghanistan-will-be-a-boon-for-international-jihadism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35625","title":{"rendered":"The Taliban\u2019s return to power in Afghanistan will be a boon for international jihadism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renewed safe haven means al-Qaida and others will have space, infrastructure, fighters and arms to plot a comeback<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lydia Khalil is an expert in international terrorism <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowyinstitute.org\/people\/experts\/bio\/lydia-khalil\">at the Lowy Institute<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Following the withdrawal of US troops, the Taliban\u2019s swift and summary takeover of Afghanistan territory and political leadership has left many wondering what their return to power means for international jihadism. <\/p>\n<p>The last time the Taliban were in power, they ruled Afghanistan in a notoriously brutal manner and harboured al-Qaida &#8211; a transnational jihadist movement that conducted the largest terrorist attack in history against the United States \u2013 prompting the US invasion in 2001 and two decades of military involvement that came to its ignominious end just a few short days ago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/aug\/21\/the-talibans-return-to-power-in-afghanistan-will-be-a-boon-for-international-jihadism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renewed safe haven means al-Qaida and others will have space, infrastructure, fighters and arms to plot a comebackLydia Khalil is an expert in international terrorism at the Lowy InstituteFollowing the withdrawal of US troops, the Taliban\u2019s swift and s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2438,"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":[46,487,43,471,61,44,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-al-qaida","category-australia-news","category-islamic-state","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-united-nations","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\/35625","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\/2438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35626,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35625\/revisions\/35626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}