{"id":432394,"date":"2021-08-27T09:09:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T03:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=432394"},"modified":"2021-08-27T10:34:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T05:04:30","slug":"britain-warns-of-imminent-attack-targeting-kabul-airport-amid-evacuations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/britain-warns-of-imminent-attack-targeting-kabul-airport-amid-evacuations\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain warns of &#8216;imminent attack&#8217; targeting Kabul airport amid evacuations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government has made an urgent update to its travel advisory for Afghanistan, warning people to steer clear of Kabul airport due to an ongoing and high threat of a terrorist attack, which will hamper the urgent airlift and rescue operations.<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said on Wednesday that the situation in the region remains volatile, with the advice being for British citizens and other evacuees to find a safe location and await further advice. <\/p>\n<p>The development is related to threats of an Islamic State (ISIS) Afghanistan affiliate, dubbed Islamic State Khorasan or ISIS-K, which is known for conducting suicide bombings and car bombs.<\/p>\n<p>The security situation in Afghanistan remains volatile. There is an ongoing and high threat of terrorist attack, the FCDO updated travel advisory reads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government has made an urgent update to its travel advisory for Afghanistan, warning people to steer clear of Kabul airport due to an ongoing and high threat of a terrorist attack, which will hamper the urgent airlift and rescue operations. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said on Wednesday that the situation in the region remains volatile, with the advice being for British citizens and other evacuees to find a safe location and await further advice. The development is related to threats of an Islamic State (ISIS) Afghanistan affiliate, dubbed Islamic State Khorasan or ISIS-K, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}