{"id":8421,"date":"2019-09-03T08:58:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T23:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/03\/blast-hits-kabul-after-briefing-us-deal-withdraw-5000-troops-afghanistan"},"modified":"2019-09-03T08:58:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T23:58:21","slug":"blast-hits-kabul-after-briefing-on-us-taliban-deal-to-withdraw-5000-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8421","title":{"rendered":"Blast hits Kabul after briefing on US-Taliban deal to withdraw 5,000 troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Insurgent group claims responsibility for explosion that killed at least 16 as US and Taliban agree deal \u2018in principle\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban has claimed responsibility for a large explosion in the Afghan capital, just hours after a US envoy briefed the Afghan government on an agreement \u201cin principle\u201d with the insurgent group that would see 5,000 US troops leave the country within five months.<\/p>\n<p>Interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahmi said at least five civilians were killed and around 50 wounded, but said the toll could still rise because a number of homes were destroyed. Later an official told Associated Press that the toll had risen to 16, with 119 injured.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/03\/blast-hits-kabul-after-briefing-us-deal-withdraw-5000-troops-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insurgent group claims responsibility for explosion that killed at least 16 as US and Taliban agree deal \u2018in principle\u2019The Taliban has claimed responsibility for a large explosion in the Afghan capital, just hours after a US envoy briefed the Afghan go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[46,61,44,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-news","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\/8421","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8422,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions\/8422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}