{"id":433740,"date":"2021-09-02T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=433740"},"modified":"2021-09-02T13:33:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T08:03:14","slug":"with-no-evacuation-flights-afghans-weigh-risky-overland-trips-to-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/with-no-evacuation-flights-afghans-weigh-risky-overland-trips-to-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"With no evacuation flights, Afghans weigh risky overland trips to borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: As the last US troops prepared to leave Afghanistan, Hussain, a US passport holder who worked with the US military, scrambled with his six daughters through Taliban checkpoints to the gates of Kabul airport for several days in a row, hoping to catch a flight to safety. <\/p>\n<p>He had called and emailed the US Embassy for days without a response. Then a US soldier phoned him to say his only chance for a flight out was alone, without his daughters who are not US citizens. Hussain&#8217;s wife had died in July of Covid-19, and leaving would mean abandoning them. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday night, the family stood in the throngs outside Kabul airport, listening to the roar of the final US C-17 aircraft taking off, ending America&#8217;s two decade-long military intervention in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: As the last US troops prepared to leave Afghanistan, Hussain, a US passport holder who worked with the US military, scrambled with his six daughters through Taliban checkpoints to the gates of Kabul airport for several days in a row, hoping to catch a flight to safety. He had called and emailed the US Embassy for days without a response. Then a US soldier phoned him to say his only chance for a flight out was alone, without his daughters who are not US citizens. Hussain&#8217;s wife had died in July of Covid-19, and leaving would mean abandoning them. [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433740","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=433740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}