{"id":41525,"date":"2021-09-03T17:18:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T17:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=41525"},"modified":"2021-09-03T17:18:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T17:18:24","slug":"afghanistan-british-army-officers-tell-of-chaotic-evacuation-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=41525","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: British Army officers tell of &#8216;chaotic&#8217; evacuation operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The senior British commander on the ground in Kabul has been speaking for the first time about the UK&#8217;s evacuation operation from Afghanistan. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Brigadier James Martin spoke of his soldiers&#8217; resilience in the face of seeing children and women dying in front of them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The last British troops returned from Afghanistan at the weekend, after helping to rescue more than 15,000 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Correspondent: Jonathan Beale<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Producer: Eleanor Montague<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Filming: Olivia Lace-Evans and Raeph Ballantyne<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Editing: Olivia Lace-Evans <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-58437673?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The senior British commander on the ground in Kabul has been speaking for the first time about the UK&#8217;s evacuation operation from Afghanistan. Brigadier James Martin spoke of his soldiers&#8217; resilience in the face of seeing children and women dying in front of them. The last British troops returned from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41525","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\/09\/120385373_p09v084c.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41525","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=41525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}