{"id":35758,"date":"2021-08-23T17:20:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T08:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/23\/afghan-guard-killed-in-kabul-airport-gun-battle"},"modified":"2021-08-24T00:20:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T15:20:00","slug":"afghan-guard-killed-in-kabul-airport-gun-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35758","title":{"rendered":"US and allies will face \u2018consequences\u2019 if troops stay after deadline, Taliban warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Militants say that forces must leave by 31 August, after Afghan guard is killed and three wounded in gun battle at Kabul airport<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have warned that there will be \u201cconsequences\u201d if the United States and its allies extend the presence of troops in Afghanistan beyond next week, as chaos continued to overwhelm Kabul airport, with a deadly gun battle on Monday at one of the airport\u2019s gates.<\/p>\n<p>The comments were made after a firefight between unidentified gunmen and US, German and Afghan guards at the airport left one Afghan guard dead and three wounded, underscoring the fragile security situation around the site and throughout the capital.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/23\/afghan-guard-killed-in-kabul-airport-gun-battle\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Militants say that forces must leave by 31 August, after Afghan guard is killed and three wounded in gun battle at Kabul airportThe Taliban have warned that there will be \u201cconsequences\u201d if the United States and its allies extend the presence of troops &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"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":[46,61,44,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","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\/35758","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\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35778,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35758\/revisions\/35778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}