{"id":20394,"date":"2026-08-26T07:34:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T07:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/26\/ryan-crocker-warns-against-ignoring-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T07:34:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T07:34:42","slug":"ryan-crocker-warns-against-ignoring-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/26\/ryan-crocker-warns-against-ignoring-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Former U.S. Envoy Ryan Crocker Warns Against Ignoring Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Crocker, the former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, has warned that continued neglect of Afghanistan by the international community, particularly the United States, could lead to severe consequences.<\/p>\n<p>He made the remarks at a session held by the National Endowment for Democracy, saying the developments taking place in Afghanistan are not just a domestic issue.<\/p>\n<p>According to Crocker, Afghanistan&#8217;s situation is directly tied to regional and global security, and paying no attention to it could expand the scope of threats beyond the country&#8217;s borders.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Crocker is one of the best-known American diplomatic figures on the Afghanistan file and has previously served as U.S. ambassador in Kabul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. envoy Ryan Crocker warns that ignoring Afghanistan could have severe regional and global security consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}