{"id":47064,"date":"2022-08-04T02:58:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/03\/tricky-situation-taliban-unsure-how-to-respond-to-zawahiris-death"},"modified":"2022-08-04T02:58:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:58:41","slug":"tricky-situation-taliban-unsure-how-to-respond-to-zawahiris-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47064","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tricky situation\u2019: Taliban unsure how to respond to Zawahiri\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior commanders caught between hopes for international recognition and pressure from their own ranks<\/p>\n<p>Senior Taliban commanders weighing up how to respond to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/us-strike-afghanistan-kills-al-qaida-leader-ayman-al-zawahiri\">US assassination of al-Qaida\u2019s leader in Kabul<\/a> are caught between their hopes for international recognition and pressure from their own ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly three days after Ayman al-Zawahiri <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/us-strike-afghanistan-kills-al-qaida-leader-ayman-al-zawahiri\">was struck by a drone<\/a> in the heart of one of the most elite neighbourhoods of the Afghan capital, the Taliban have barely responded.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/03\/tricky-situation-taliban-unsure-how-to-respond-to-zawahiris-death\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior commanders caught between hopes for international recognition and pressure from their own ranksSenior Taliban commanders weighing up how to respond to the US assassination of al-Qaida\u2019s leader in Kabul are caught between their hopes for internat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":523,"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":[46,487,44,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-al-qaida","category-taliban","category-us-foreign-policy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47064","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\/523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47065,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47064\/revisions\/47065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}