{"id":432933,"date":"2021-08-31T08:29:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T02:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=432933"},"modified":"2021-08-31T09:25:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T03:55:58","slug":"afghanistan-final-uk-evacuation-flight-leaves-kabul-troops-head-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/afghanistan-final-uk-evacuation-flight-leaves-kabul-troops-head-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: Final UK evacuation flight leaves Kabul; troops head home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British troops have left Kabul, ending the UK&#8217;s evacuation operation and its 20-year military involvement in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Boris Johnson praised the heroic evacuation effort, even as the government acknowledged some eligible Afghan civilians had been left behind. The UK&#8217;s top military officer conceded that we haven&#8217;t been able to bring everybody out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The UK government said late Saturday that about 1,000 troops who ran an airlift of British nationals and Afghan civilians had departed from Kabul airport, hours after the final evacuation flight for civilians. Most countries apart from the United States had already left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British troops have left Kabul, ending the UK&#8217;s evacuation operation and its 20-year military involvement in Afghanistan. Prime Minister Boris Johnson praised the heroic evacuation effort, even as the government acknowledged some eligible Afghan civilians had been left behind. The UK&#8217;s top military officer conceded that we haven&#8217;t been able to bring everybody out.&#8221; The UK government said late Saturday that about 1,000 troops who ran an airlift of British nationals and Afghan civilians had departed from Kabul airport, hours after the final evacuation flight for civilians. Most countries apart from the United States had already left.<\/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-432933","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\/432933","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=432933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}