{"id":6939,"date":"2021-08-15T15:25:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T15:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=6939"},"modified":"2021-08-15T15:27:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T15:27:58","slug":"afghan-president-flees-the-country-as-taliban-move-on-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/afghan-president-flees-the-country-as-taliban-move-on-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan president flees the country as Taliban move on Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Ashraf Ghani left the Afghan capital for Tajikistan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s President Ashraf Ghani has left the country for Tajikistan as the Taliban announced to move towards Kabul, according to the country\u2019s top peace negotiator Abdullah Abdullah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe former Afghan president has left the nation,\u201d Abdullah, the head of the High Council for National Reconciliation, said in a <span style=\"color: #a80000;\"><a style=\"color: #a80000;\" href=\"https:\/\/fb.watch\/7oWZ-2x8Xb\/\" target=\"_blank\">video on his Facebook page<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Ghani joined his fellow citizens and foreigners who fleed as the Taliban advanced in a city gripped by panic.<\/p>\n<p>Several helicopters raced overhead throughout the day to evacuate personnel from the U.S. Embassy, signaling the end of a 20-year U.S. war in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Former Afghan warlords Abdul Rashid Dostum and Ata Mohammad Noor, who command thousands of fighters, also fled the province, saying they \u201care in a safe place now\u201d. In a social media post, Noor blamed the government forces, saying they handed their weapons and equipment to the Taliban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ashraf Ghani left the Afghan capital for Tajikistan Afghanistan&#8217;s President Ashraf Ghani has left the country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124,1],"tags":[9,75,10,7,128],"class_list":["post-6939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-conflict","tag-taliban","tag-u-s","tag-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Ashraf-Ghani.jpeg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1NV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6939"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6944,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939\/revisions\/6944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}