{"id":35713,"date":"2021-08-22T20:49:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T11:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/22\/taliban-seek-to-assert-control-around-kabul-airport-as-death-toll-rises"},"modified":"2021-08-23T00:57:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T15:57:43","slug":"taliban-seek-to-assert-control-around-kabul-airport-as-death-toll-rises-to-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35713","title":{"rendered":"Afghan civil war \u2018unavoidable\u2019 if Taliban refuse talks, says opposition leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmad Massoud issues warning as militant group seeks to assert control around Kabul airport<\/p>\n<p>One of the main figures still leading Afghan opposition to the Taliban\u2019s takeover of the country, Ahmad Massoud, has warned that a new civil war is inevitable without a comprehensive power-sharing agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Massoud, the son of Ahmad Shah Massoud, who opposed the Taliban in the 1990s and was assassinated two days before 9\/11 in 2001, told the Dubai-based Al Arabiya TV channel that war was \u201cunavoidable\u201d if the Taliban refused dialogue.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/22\/taliban-seek-to-assert-control-around-kabul-airport-as-death-toll-rises\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmad Massoud issues warning as militant group seeks to assert control around Kabul airportOne of the main figures still leading Afghan opposition to the Taliban\u2019s takeover of the country, Ahmad Massoud, has warned that a new civil war is inevitable wi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1450,"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":[46,212,44,52,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-taliban","category-uk-news","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35713","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\/1450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35730,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35713\/revisions\/35730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}