{"id":7404,"date":"2021-07-05T09:01:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T05:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/british-special-forces-may-remain-in-afghanistan-after-withdrawal-of-troops\/"},"modified":"2021-07-05T09:01:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T05:01:39","slug":"british-special-forces-may-remain-in-afghanistan-after-withdrawal-of-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/british-special-forces-may-remain-in-afghanistan-after-withdrawal-of-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"British special forces may remain in Afghanistan after withdrawal of troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/07\/British-special-forces-may-remain-in-Afghanistan-after-withdrawal-of.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>A small group of British special forces may stay in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of the bulk of the troops, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/report.az\/en\/\">Report<\/a> informs referring to The Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>Boris Johnson is expected to make a final decision on July 5 at a National Security Council meeting.<\/p>\n<p>However, one former Special Air Service (SAS) soldier who was recently in Afghanistan said that the decision was as good as done. A small number of troops will remain in the country as an \u201cadvisory group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added the role of the SAS in Afghanistan would be to \u201cprovide training to Afghan units and deploy with them on the ground as advisors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former SAS source added there was \u201cno determined time\u201d for how long British special forces will remain stationed throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier it was reported that the UK and the US would complete the withdrawal of the bulk of their troops from Afghanistan on July 4.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n        n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n        'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '800789640666009');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/>https:\/\/report.az\/en\/other-countries\/british-special-forces-may-remain-in-afghanistan-after-withdrawal-of-troops\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A small group of British special forces may stay in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of the bulk of the troops, Report informs referring to The Telegraph. Boris Johnson is expected to make a final decision on July 5 at a National Security Council meeting. However, one former Special Air Service (SAS) soldier who was&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/british-special-forces-may-remain-in-afghanistan-after-withdrawal-of-troops\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">British special forces may remain in Afghanistan after withdrawal of troops<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[37,1663,293,716,420,153,1690],"class_list":["post-7404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","tag-afghanistan","tag-british","tag-forces","tag-remain","tag-special","tag-troops","tag-withdrawal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}