{"id":11886,"date":"2020-03-25T05:11:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T05:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=11886"},"modified":"2020-03-25T05:11:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T05:11:27","slug":"us-slashes-aid-to-afghanistan-after-mike-pompeo-visit-to-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/us-slashes-aid-to-afghanistan-after-mike-pompeo-visit-to-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"US slashes aid to Afghanistan after Mike Pompeo visit to Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>US is slashing $1 billion in assistance to Afghanistan and\nthreatening further reductions in all forms of cooperation after the country\u2019s\nrival leaders failed to agree on forming a new government. The decision to cut\nthe aid was made by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after he made an\nunannounced, urgent visit to Kabul to meet with Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah\nAbdullah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US has supported the Afghan government since it invaded\nthe country in 2001 and overthrew the Taliban after the 9\/11 attacks. The US\nwithdrew its troops from Afghanistan under the terms of its agreement with the\nTaliban. As per the agreement, the US will continue to withdraw its troops in\nthe next several months from about 13,000 to 8,600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US is slashing $1 billion in assistance to Afghanistan and threatening further reductions in all forms of cooperation after the country\u2019s rival leaders failed to agree on forming a new government. The decision to cut the aid was made by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after he made an unannounced, urgent visit to Kabul to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":11887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[914],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-11886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-march-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11888,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11886\/revisions\/11888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11886"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=11886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}