{"id":7025,"date":"2021-08-14T11:43:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T11:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/?p=7025"},"modified":"2021-08-14T11:43:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T11:43:45","slug":"afghanistan-us-troops-arrive-to-assist-evacuations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/2021\/08\/14\/afghanistan-us-troops-arrive-to-assist-evacuations\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: US troops arrive to assist evacuations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban pushed closer to Kabul on Saturday (Aug 14), capturing a key city near Afghanistan&#8217;s capital as American troops flew in to help evacuate embassy personnel and other civilians, reporters channelnewsasia.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing a rapid advance, the insurgents took Pul-e-Alam, around 70km from Kabul and the capital of Logar province, a local provincial council member said.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban did not face much resistance, he told Reuters on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>The gain of the city, a key staging post for a potential assault on Kabul, comes a day after the insurgents took the country&#8217;s second-and third-biggest cities.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon has said two battalions of Marines and one infantry battalion will arrive in Kabul by Sunday evening, involving about 3,000 troops.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have arrived, their arrival will continue &#8217;til tomorrow,&#8221; the US official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>An infantry brigade combat team will also move out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Kuwait to act as a quick reaction force for security in Kabul if needed, the Pentagon has said.<\/p>\n<p>Britain and several other Western nations are also sending troops as resistance from Afghan government forces crumbles and fears grow that an assault on Kabul could be just days away.<\/p>\n<p><em>Agencies<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban pushed closer to Kabul on Saturday (Aug 14), capturing a key city near Afghanistan&#8217;s capital as American troops flew in to help evacuate embassy personnel and other civilians, reporters channelnewsasia. Continuing a rapid advance, the insurgents took Pul-e-Alam, around 70km from Kabul and the capital of Logar province, a local provincial council member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7027,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions\/7027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}