{"id":7417,"date":"2019-08-20T01:26:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T16:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/19\/with-kabul-wedding-attack-isis-aims-to-erode-taliban-supremacy"},"modified":"2019-08-20T01:26:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T16:26:47","slug":"with-kabul-wedding-attack-isis-aims-to-erode-taliban-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7417","title":{"rendered":"With Kabul wedding attack, Isis aims to erode Taliban supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the US and Taliban negotiate peace, Isis sees a chance to sow fresh chaos in Afghanistan <\/p>\n<p>Even by the bloody standards of Afghanistan, it was a brutal attack: a suicide bomber at a wedding celebration, detonating his device as children danced and the happy couple completed their marriage rituals. In an instant more than 60 of the 1,000 guests were dead, hundreds injured.<\/p>\n<p>Few events are so joyous and optimistic as a wedding. So why would a terrorist group \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/17\/dozens-feared-dead-or-wounded-after-afghan-wedding-hall-blast\">even one as brutal as <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/17\/dozens-feared-dead-or-wounded-after-afghan-wedding-hall-blast\">Islamic State, which has claimed responsibility<\/a> \u2013 want to attack one?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/19\/with-kabul-wedding-attack-isis-aims-to-erode-taliban-supremacy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the US and Taliban negotiate peace, Isis sees a chance to sow fresh chaos in Afghanistan Even by the bloody standards of Afghanistan, it was a brutal attack: a suicide bomber at a wedding celebration, detonating his device as children danced and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"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":[46,415,471,61,44,45,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-donald-trump","category-islamic-state","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/7417","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\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7418,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7417\/revisions\/7418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}