{"id":36424,"date":"2021-09-04T15:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T06:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/04\/afghanistan-militia-endure-heavy-assaults-from-taliban-in-panjshir-valley"},"modified":"2021-09-04T21:40:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T12:40:29","slug":"afghanistan-militia-endure-heavy-assaults-from-taliban-in-panjshir-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36424","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: militia endure \u2018heavy assaults\u2019 from Taliban in Panjshir Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rebels say they are holding on despite celebratory gunfire in Kabul amid reports that hardliners have wiped out last pocket of resistance<\/p>\n<p>Militia forces say they are enduring \u201cheavy assaults\u201d as they battle the Taliban in Afghanistan\u2019s Panjshir Valley, the final holdout against hardline Islamist control.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban face the enormous challenge of shifting gears from insurgent group to governing power, days after the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/30\/pentagon-kabul-drone-strike-islamic-state\">fully withdrew<\/a> its troops and ended two decades of war.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/04\/afghanistan-militia-endure-heavy-assaults-from-taliban-in-panjshir-valley\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebels say they are holding on despite celebratory gunfire in Kabul amid reports that hardliners have wiped out last pocket of resistanceMilitia forces say they are enduring \u201cheavy assaults\u201d as they battle the Taliban in Afghanistan\u2019s Panjshir Valley, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2532,"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":[46,53,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-human-rights","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/36424","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\/2532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36440,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36424\/revisions\/36440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}