{"id":35760,"date":"2021-08-23T16:41:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T07:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/23\/uk-taliban-extend-kabul-exit-date-deadline-western-troops-forces-americans-britain-kabul"},"modified":"2021-08-23T19:56:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T10:56:40","slug":"uk-to-push-taliban-to-extend-kabul-exit-date-for-western-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35760","title":{"rendered":"UK evacuation from Afghanistan \u2018down to hours not weeks\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defence secretary says British evacuation effort cannot continue once US troops leave Kabul<\/p>\n<p>The British effort to evacuate people by air from Kabul is \u201cdown to hours now, not weeks\u201d, the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has said.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted there was no prospect of Britain continuing the operation to fly its nationals and Afghans out from Kabul airport after the US decides to withdraw its troops.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/23\/uk-taliban-extend-kabul-exit-date-deadline-western-troops-forces-americans-britain-kabul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence secretary says British evacuation effort cannot continue once US troops leave KabulThe British effort to evacuate people by air from Kabul is \u201cdown to hours now, not weeks\u201d, the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has said.He admitted there was no &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2454,"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":[46,319,637,938,4,61,44,52,45,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-foreign-policy","category-g7","category-military","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","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\/35760","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\/2454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35787,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35760\/revisions\/35787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}