{"id":35831,"date":"2021-08-24T19:53:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T10:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/24\/taliban-could-close-kabul-airport-if-allies-delay-exit-says-wallace"},"modified":"2021-08-24T19:53:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T10:53:39","slug":"taliban-could-close-kabul-airport-if-allies-delay-exit-says-wallace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35831","title":{"rendered":"Taliban could close Kabul airport if allies delay exit, says Wallace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK defence secretary says extending Afghan rescue operation into September is \u2018unlikely\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/24\/afghanistan-live-news-taliban-kabul-us-withdrawal-joe-biden-germany-airport-plane-flights-evacuation\">Withdrawal from Afghanistan \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Taliban could use armed force to close Kabul airport if the US and its allies try to extend the 31 August deadline for the evacuation from Afghanistan, the UK defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking a few hours before the start of a virtual G7 leaders\u2019 summit chaired by Boris Johnson, Wallace confirmed Britain would still like the deadline to be extended to allow more time for British nationals and Afghans who have worked with the military during the past 20 years to be flown out.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/24\/taliban-could-close-kabul-airport-if-allies-delay-exit-says-wallace\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK defence secretary says extending Afghan rescue operation into September is \u2018unlikely\u2019Withdrawal from Afghanistan \u2013 live updatesThe Taliban could use armed force to close Kabul airport if the US and its allies try to extend the 31 August deadline for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"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":[46,1808,319,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ben-wallace","category-foreign-policy","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-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\/35831","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\/2466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35832,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35831\/revisions\/35832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}