{"id":36179,"date":"2021-08-30T06:41:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T21:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/29\/taliban-assure-world-leaders-they-will-let-eligible-people-leave-afghanistan"},"modified":"2021-08-30T06:41:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T21:41:27","slug":"taliban-assure-world-leaders-they-will-let-eligible-people-leave-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36179","title":{"rendered":"Taliban assure world leaders they will let eligible people leave Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many British citizens stuck at Kabul airport after all UK troops left, as tensions and violence intensify<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><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\">Afghanistan \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Boris Johnson and other world leaders have received assurances from the Taliban that foreign nationals and those with authorisation to exit Afghanistan will be free to leave, as tensions and bloodshed escalate on the streets of Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday US forces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/29\/afghanistan-fresh-blast-near-kabul-airport-kills-child\">launched a military strike<\/a> against a vehicle said to be carrying \u201cmultiple suicide bombers\u201d from Islamic State\u2019s local affiliate who were planning to attack Kabul airport. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/29\/taliban-assure-world-leaders-they-will-let-eligible-people-leave-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many British citizens stuck at Kabul airport after all UK troops left, as tensions and violence intensifyAfghanistan \u2013 live updatesBoris Johnson and other world leaders have received assurances from the Taliban that foreign nationals and those with aut&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2508,"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":[46,61,44,52,84,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","category-united-nations","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\/36179","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\/2508"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36180,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36179\/revisions\/36180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}