{"id":4530,"date":"2026-10-19T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/the-independent-downing-street-hits-back-after-trumps-war-secretary-diminishes-u-16727\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:17:00","slug":"the-independent-downing-street-hits-back-after-trumps-war-secretary-diminishes-u-16727","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/the-independent-downing-street-hits-back-after-trumps-war-secretary-diminishes-u-16727\/","title":{"rendered":"The Independent: Downing Street hits back after Trump\u2019s war secretary diminishes UK\u2019s role in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/pete-hegseth-afghanistan-uk-nato-downing-street-b3069197.html\">Downing Street hits back after Trump\u2019s war secretary diminishes UK\u2019s role in Afghanistan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: The Independent<\/p>\n<p>Published: 2026-10-19 12:17 (UTC)<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/pete-hegseth-afghanistan-uk-nato-downing-street-b3069197.html\">https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/pete-hegseth-afghanistan-uk-nato-downing-street-b3069197.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downing Street hits back after Trump\u2019s war secretary diminishes UK\u2019s role in Afghanistan Source: The Independent Published: 2026-10-19 12:17 (UTC) Link: https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/pete-hegseth-afghanistan-uk-nato-downing-street-b3069197.html<\/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-4530","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\/4530","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=4530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}