{"id":5005,"date":"2026-07-20T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/lowy-institute-the-talibans-harder-task-to-turn-conquest-into-control-22370\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:00:00","slug":"lowy-institute-the-talibans-harder-task-to-turn-conquest-into-control-22370","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/lowy-institute-the-talibans-harder-task-to-turn-conquest-into-control-22370\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowy Institute: The Taliban\u2019s harder task to turn conquest into control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowyinstitute.org\/the-interpreter\/the-taliban-s-harder-task-to-turn-conquest-into-control\">The Taliban\u2019s harder task to turn conquest into control<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Lowy Institute<\/p>\n<p>Published: 2026-07-20 07:00 (UTC)<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowyinstitute.org\/the-interpreter\/the-taliban-s-harder-task-to-turn-conquest-into-control\">https:\/\/www.lowyinstitute.org\/the-interpreter\/the-taliban-s-harder-task-to-turn-conquest-into-control<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban\u2019s harder task to turn conquest into control Source: Lowy Institute Published: 2026-07-20 07:00 (UTC) Link: https:\/\/www.lowyinstitute.org\/the-interpreter\/the-taliban-s-harder-task-to-turn-conquest-into-control<\/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-5005","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\/5005","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=5005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afghanistan.is\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}