{"id":36099,"date":"2021-08-28T18:58:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T09:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/28\/ending-evacuation-afghanistan-heartbreaking-uk-nick-carter"},"modified":"2021-08-28T18:58:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T09:58:11","slug":"ending-evacuation-from-afghanistan-is-heartbreaking-uk-armed-forces-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36099","title":{"rendered":"Ending evacuation from Afghanistan is \u2018heartbreaking\u2019, UK armed forces chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Carter highlights challenging judgments that have had to be made on the ground in Kabul<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/28\/afghanistan-live-news-uks-ability-to-process-evacuations-extremely-reduced-as-us-on-alert-for-further-attacks\">Afghanistan live news: British troops will end Kabul evacuation operation today, says armed forces chief<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/27\/fear-fury-kabul-thousands-face-being-abandoned-by-uk\">Fear and fury in Kabul as thousands face being abandoned by UK<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Civilian evacuations from Afghanistan will finish on Saturday, the head of the UK armed forces, Gen Sir Nick Carter, has said.<\/p>\n<p>With very few civilian flights remaining, Carter said it was heartbreaking that the evacuation had failed to get everybody out.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/28\/ending-evacuation-afghanistan-heartbreaking-uk-nick-carter\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Carter highlights challenging judgments that have had to be made on the ground in KabulAfghanistan live news: British troops will end Kabul evacuation operation today, says armed forces chiefFear and fury in Kabul as thousands face being abandoned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1677,"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":[46,938,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-military","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/36099","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\/1677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36100,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36099\/revisions\/36100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}