{"id":55532,"date":"2014-09-30T09:51:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T13:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55532"},"modified":"2014-09-30T08:00:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T12:00:32","slug":"10k-us-troops-to-remain-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55532","title":{"rendered":"10k US troops to remain in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=32768\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32768\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Afghanistan-300x143.jpg\" alt=\"Afghanistan\" width=\"300\" height=\"143\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Afghanistan-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Afghanistan.jpg 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, Afghanistan&#8217;s new government signed a deal with the US to leave ten thousand troops in that country after the &#8220;withdrawal&#8221; of US forces later this year According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/accord-to-keep-us-troops-in-afghanistan-signed-in-kabul-1.305783\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> In a ceremony attended by Afghanistan\u2019s new president, Ashraf Ghani, and other officials, Ambassador James Cunningham inked the accord on behalf of the United States. Hanif Atmar, Afghanistan\u2019s national security adviser and former interior minister, signed for the Kabul government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have signed this looking to the needs of Afghanistan, and the needs of the international community,\u201d Ghani said during the ceremony. \u201cIt is a very balanced agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NATO representatives signed a separate Status of Forces agreement to allow a contingent of several thousand more allied soldiers to train and assist the Afghan army in 2015.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It probably would have been a little tougher to get the deal signed if the example of the alternative hadn&#8217;t existed in the form of Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, Afghanistan&#8217;s new government signed a deal with the US to leave ten thousand troops &hellip; <a title=\"10k US troops to remain in Afghanistan\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55532\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">10k US troops to remain in Afghanistan<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}