{"id":432957,"date":"2021-08-31T08:55:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T03:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=432957"},"modified":"2021-08-31T10:18:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T04:48:34","slug":"afghanistan-rockets-fired-at-kabul-airport-amid-us-withdrawal-hit-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/afghanistan-rockets-fired-at-kabul-airport-amid-us-withdrawal-hit-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: Rockets fired at Kabul airport amid US withdrawal hit homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket fire apparently targeting Kabul&#8217;s international airport struck a nearby neighbourhood on Monday, the eve of the deadline for American troops to withdraw from the country&#8217;s longest war after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. It wasn&#8217;t immediately clear if anyone was hurt.<\/p>\n<p>The rockets did not halt the steady stream of U.S. military C-17 cargo jets taking off and landing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in the Afghan capital. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Last week, the Islamic State group launched a devastating suicide bombing at one of the airport gates that killed at least 169 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket fire apparently targeting Kabul&#8217;s international airport struck a nearby neighbourhood on Monday, the eve of the deadline for American troops to withdraw from the country&#8217;s longest war after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. It wasn&#8217;t immediately clear if anyone was hurt. The rockets did not halt the steady stream of U.S. military C-17 cargo jets taking off and landing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in the Afghan capital. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Last week, the Islamic State group launched a devastating suicide bombing at one of the airport gates that killed at least 169 Afghans [&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-432957","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\/432957","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=432957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}