{"id":47086,"date":"2022-08-04T20:44:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T11:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/04\/taliban-claim-they-did-not-know-ayman-al-zawahiri-was-living-in-central-kabul"},"modified":"2022-08-04T22:08:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T13:08:48","slug":"taliban-claim-they-did-not-know-ayman-al-zawahiri-was-living-in-central-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47086","title":{"rendered":"Taliban claim they did not know Ayman al-Zawahiri was living in central Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denial contradicts US officials who say al-Qaida leader was staying at home of Taliban leader\u2019s aide<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban leadership has said they did not know that al-Qaida boss Ayman al-Zawahiri had moved to the Afghan capital, Kabul, where the US president, Joe Biden, said he was killed by a drone strike at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has no information about Ayman al-Zawahiri\u2019s arrival and stay in Kabul,\u201d the militants said in a statement, that used their chosen name for their unrecognised regime.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/04\/taliban-claim-they-did-not-know-ayman-al-zawahiri-was-living-in-central-kabul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denial contradicts US officials who say al-Qaida leader was staying at home of Taliban leader\u2019s aideThe Taliban leadership has said they did not know that al-Qaida boss Ayman al-Zawahiri had moved to the Afghan capital, Kabul, where the US president, J&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1460,"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":[46,2333,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ayman-al-zawahiri","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47086","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\/1460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47100,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47086\/revisions\/47100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}