{"id":574536,"date":"2021-06-26T12:20:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=574536"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:20:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:20:47","slug":"top-afghan-leaders-meet-with-joe-biden-at-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-afghan-leaders-meet-with-joe-biden-at-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Afghan leaders meet with Joe Biden at White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-afghan-leaders-meet-with-joe-biden-at-white-house%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=574536&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2437121\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2437121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Biden, right, meets with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, center, and Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah, left, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, June 25, 2021. (AP Photo\/Susan Walsh)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 9:20 AM PT \u2013 Saturday, June 26, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Joe Biden met with top Afghan leaders at the White House and pledged the U.S. commitment to assisting Afghanistan. On Friday, Biden held talks with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and the Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was centered around the U.S. troop withdrawal from the region, military and civilian aid, and combating growing Taliban advances. Biden pledged the U.S. would continue to support Afghanistan through political and economic means.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I had a wonderful visit with President <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ashrafghani?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AshrafGhani<\/a> today. We discussed our shared commitment to an enduring security partnership as the U.S. continues to support the Afghan government &amp; the ANDSF. The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeptofDefense?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@deptofdefense<\/a> is deeply invested in the security &amp; stability of Afghanistan. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MXv8qWU7tM\">pic.twitter.com\/MXv8qWU7tM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III (@SecDef) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecDef\/status\/1408504630842118152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Although, Abdullah noted the troop drawdown leaves the door open for terrorist threats in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe tend to forget that that Al-Qaida had reached a certain level of capacity in Afghanistan, that was an actual danger, a homeland security threat for the United States,\u201d he explained. \u201cThe issue is also today if Afghanistan is abandoned completely, without support, without engagement, that\u2019s the danger that Afghanistan can turn once again into a hub for terrorist groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Within the next two weeks, about 4,000 troops will be pulled out from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/fmr-cbp-acting-chief-kamala-harris-border-visit-all-about-optics\/\">Fmr. CBP Acting Chief: Kamala Harris Border Visit All About Optics<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden, right, meets with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, center, and Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah, left, in the Oval Office of the White House &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2281420,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}