{"id":390788,"date":"2018-12-28T04:42:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T03:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/leave-afghanistan-or-face-soviet-fate\/"},"modified":"2018-12-28T04:42:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T03:42:28","slug":"leave-afghanistan-or-face-soviet-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/leave-afghanistan-or-face-soviet-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"Leave Afghanistan or face Soviet fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The Taliban militant group has warned the United States it would face the same fate as the Soviet Union in the 1980s if it did not leave violence-wracked Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement on Thursday that US forces face\u00a0&#8220;humiliation&#8221; and could &#8220;learn a great deal&#8221; from the experience of their Cold War foe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Take heed from the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan and abandon thoughts of testing the mettle of the already proven Afghans,&#8221; said the statement issued on the 39th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of the war-torn country.<\/p>\n<p>The Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan in 1989, ending a decade-long occupation and precipitating a bloody civil war and the emergence of the Taliban and other militant groups.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the statement, Taliban spokesman\u00a0added that any future relations between the Taliban and the United States should be based on &#8220;sound diplomatic and economic principles&#8221; rather than conflict.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"312\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20181227\/b466609a-4289-4a71-9755-a1698efaa202.jpg\" width=\"555\"\/><figcaption>This&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/12\/27\/584117\/Afghanistan-Taliban-Zabiullah-Mujahid-US-Russia-NATO\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban militant group has warned the United States it would face the same fate as the Soviet Union in the 1980s if it did not leave violence-wracked Afghanistan. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement on Thursday that US forces face\u00a0&#8220;humiliation&#8221; and could &#8220;learn a great deal&#8221; from the experience of their Cold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":390789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}