{"id":35654,"date":"2021-08-22T03:43:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T18:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/21\/us-americans-kabul-airport-security-concerns-biden-austin-pentagon-taliban"},"modified":"2021-08-22T06:25:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T21:25:29","slug":"us-urges-americans-to-avoid-kabul-airport-amid-panoply-of-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35654","title":{"rendered":"US urges Americans to avoid Kabul airport amid security concerns including Isis threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands still trying to flee a week after Taliban takeover as president is briefed on operations in Afghanistan<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/21\/trapped-in-hell-kabul-airport-chaos-casts-doubt-on-us-promise-of-safe-evacuation\">\u2018Trapped in hell\u2019: airport chaos casts doubt on safe evacuation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After the US advised Americans in Afghanistan to avoid traveling to Kabul airport on Saturday, a Pentagon spokesman said the US had \u201ca whole panoply of security concerns\u201d around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/21\/biden-trump-america-first-progressive\">efforts to evacuate its citizens and Afghan allies<\/a>. Another official said the Islamic State group was threatening to attack Americans in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/21\/biden-trump-america-first-progressive\">\u2018America first\u2019 again? Is Biden echoing Trump on Afghanistan and vaccines? <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/21\/us-americans-kabul-airport-security-concerns-biden-austin-pentagon-taliban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands still trying to flee a week after Taliban takeover as president is briefed on operations in Afghanistan\u2018Trapped in hell\u2019: airport chaos casts doubt on safe evacuationAfter the US advised Americans in Afghanistan to avoid traveling to Kabul ai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2443,"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":[46,1854,471,939,61,44,45,473,758,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-biden-administration","category-islamic-state","category-joe-biden","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","category-us-national-security","category-us-news","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\/35654","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\/2443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35673,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35654\/revisions\/35673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}