{"id":432898,"date":"2021-08-31T08:26:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T02:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=432898"},"modified":"2021-08-31T09:01:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T03:31:52","slug":"taliban-fire-in-air-to-celebrate-as-last-us-aircraft-leaves-kabul-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/taliban-fire-in-air-to-celebrate-as-last-us-aircraft-leaves-kabul-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban fire in air to celebrate as last US aircraft leaves Kabul airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban on Tuesday fired their guns in the air in celebration as the United States completed the withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan, after 20 years of military presence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Parts of Kabul erupted in celebratory gunfire after the last US C-17 aircraft lifted off from Hamid Karzai International Airport right before midnight shortly after the last aircraft departed,&#8221; CNN reported. <\/p>\n<p>General Kenneth McKenzie, the head of the US Central Command, made the withdrawal announcement at a Pentagon news briefing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I announce the completion of the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and the end of the military mission to evacuate American citizens and Afghans&#8230; The last C-17 lifted off from Hamid Karzai Airport on August 30 this afternoon at 3:29 pm (local time), he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban on Tuesday fired their guns in the air in celebration as the United States completed the withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan, after 20 years of military presence. &#8220;Parts of Kabul erupted in celebratory gunfire after the last US C-17 aircraft lifted off from Hamid Karzai International Airport right before midnight shortly after the last aircraft departed,&#8221; CNN reported. General Kenneth McKenzie, the head of the US Central Command, made the withdrawal announcement at a Pentagon news briefing. &#8220;I announce the completion of the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and the end of the military mission to evacuate [&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-432898","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\/432898","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=432898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}