{"id":36110,"date":"2021-08-29T14:13:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T05:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/29\/afghanistan-live-news-terror-attack-highly-likely-in-next-24-36-hours-says-biden-last-uk-troops-leave-kabul"},"modified":"2021-08-29T18:18:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T09:18:35","slug":"afghanistan-live-news-us-embassy-warns-of-specific-credible-threat-at-kabul-airport-as-biden-says-terror-attack-highly-likely-in-next-24-36-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36110","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan live news: US embassy warns of \u2018specific, credible threat\u2019 at Kabul airport as Biden says terror attack \u2018highly likely in next 24-36 hours\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/29\/afghanistan-live-news-terror-attack-highly-likely-in-next-24-36-hours-says-biden-last-uk-troops-leave-kabul?page=with:block-612acbca8f08b30431f85219#block-612acbca8f08b30431f85219\">Speaking on Saturday afternoon, Biden vows further strikes against Islamic State as airport terror threat \u2018remains high\u2019<\/a>; largest UK evacuation mission since second world war comes to a close<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/28\/joe-biden-kabul-terror-attack-warning-drone-strike-afghanistan\">Joe Biden says new Kabul terror attack highly likely in next 24 to 36 hours<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/28\/uk-councils-ready-to-assist-afghan-refugees-lack-housing\">UK councils \u2018ready to assist\u2019 Afghan refugees but lack housing<\/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<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/28\/ending-evacuation-afghanistan-heartbreaking-uk-nick-carter\">Ending evacuation is \u2018heartbreaking\u2019, UK armed forces chief says<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/afghanistan\">See all our Afghanistan coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-08-29T09:04:49.741Z\">10.04am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Alex Mistlin here on the Guardian\u2019s Afghanistan live blog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-08-29T09:02:00.784Z\">10.02am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p><strong>The UK prime minister Boris Johnson<\/strong> has published a letter to \u201call those who served in Afghanistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last two decades, many thousands of you gave your lives to services in Afghanistan, often in the most arduous conditions. I realise this will be an especially difficult time for the friends and loved ones of the 457 British services members who laid down their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My letter to all those who served in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you are still serving or a veteran, a loved-one, a relation or a friend, you all played your part and you should feel immense pride. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Foy5r41Mcr\">pic.twitter.com\/Foy5r41Mcr<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/29\/afghanistan-live-news-terror-attack-highly-likely-in-next-24-36-hours-says-biden-last-uk-troops-leave-kabul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking on Saturday afternoon, Biden vows further strikes against Islamic State as airport terror threat \u2018remains high\u2019; largest UK evacuation mission since second world war comes to a closeJoe Biden says new Kabul terror attack highly likely in next &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36110","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\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36122,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36110\/revisions\/36122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}