{"id":4528,"date":"2026-10-19T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/newsweek-pete-hegseths-afghanistan-war-comments-spark-backlash-from-veterans-16729\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T11:30:00","slug":"newsweek-pete-hegseths-afghanistan-war-comments-spark-backlash-from-veterans-16729","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/newsweek-pete-hegseths-afghanistan-war-comments-spark-backlash-from-veterans-16729\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsweek: Pete Hegseth\u2019s Afghanistan war comments spark backlash from veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/pete-hegseth-saying-5-countries-fought-in-afghanistan-criticized-by-veterans-12586801\">Pete Hegseth\u2019s Afghanistan war comments spark backlash from veterans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Newsweek<\/p>\n<p>Published: 2026-10-19 11:30 (UTC)<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/pete-hegseth-saying-5-countries-fought-in-afghanistan-criticized-by-veterans-12586801\">https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/pete-hegseth-saying-5-countries-fought-in-afghanistan-criticized-by-veterans-12586801<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Hegseth\u2019s Afghanistan war comments spark backlash from veterans Source: Newsweek Published: 2026-10-19 11:30 (UTC) Link: https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/pete-hegseth-saying-5-countries-fought-in-afghanistan-criticized-by-veterans-12586801<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}