{"id":40134,"date":"2021-08-12T23:10:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T23:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=40134"},"modified":"2021-08-12T23:10:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T23:10:24","slug":"afghanistan-desperation-as-thousands-flee-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=40134","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: Desperation as thousands flee the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In less than a week, the Taliban have taken over the capitals of more than a quarter of Afghanistan\u2019s provinces, advancing at an unexpectedly rapid pace. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Afghan forces say they are battling to regain control of some of the cities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The US has been launching air strikes against the Taliban in parts of the country. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The violence has resulted in an acute humanitarian crisis \u2013 tens of thousands displaced and barely enough aid to supply even basic resources.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-58191043\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In less than a week, the Taliban have taken over the capitals of more than a quarter of Afghanistan\u2019s provinces, advancing at an unexpectedly rapid pace. Afghan forces say they are battling to regain control of some of the cities. The US has been launching air strikes against the Taliban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/119919760_p09s3c8b.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}