{"id":36194,"date":"2021-08-31T10:17:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T01:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/30\/pentagon-kabul-drone-strike-islamic-state"},"modified":"2021-08-31T10:17:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T01:17:44","slug":"after-20-years-last-us-flight-departs-kabul-leaving-afghanistan-to-its-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36194","title":{"rendered":"After 20 years, last US flight departs Kabul, leaving Afghanistan to its fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Americans, including acting ambassador, have now left, ending near 20-year occupation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/aug\/30\/go-back-to-afghanistan-men-like-mcmaster-and-panetta-are-addicted-to-war\">Opinion: Men like McMaster and Panetta are addicted to war<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>America\u2019s longest war came to an end just before midnight local time in Afghanistan, when the last evacuation flight flew out of Kabul airport.<\/p>\n<p>A C-17 military transport plane took off carrying the US commander who oversaw the evacuation operation, Maj Gen Christopher Donahue of the 82nd Airborne Division, and the acting US ambassador, Ross Wilson, who were the last two Americans to step off the tarmac in Kabul, minutes before the 31 August deadline.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/30\/pentagon-kabul-drone-strike-islamic-state\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Americans, including acting ambassador, have now left, ending near 20-year occupationOpinion: Men like McMaster and Panetta are addicted to warAmerica\u2019s longest war came to an end just before midnight local time in Afghanistan, when the last evacu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2510,"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":[46,471,61,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-islamic-state","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/36194","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\/2510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36195,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36194\/revisions\/36195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}