{"id":13051,"date":"2025-08-22T01:45:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T21:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=13051"},"modified":"2025-08-22T01:45:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T21:15:46","slug":"a-new-documentary-shows-the-rise-of-the-taliban-after-the-us-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/a-new-documentary-shows-the-rise-of-the-taliban-after-the-us-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"A new documentary shows the rise of the Taliban after the US withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13047\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Hollwod-gate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>A new documentary shows the rise of the Taliban after the US withdrawal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The documentary &#8220;Hollywood Gate: A Year Under Taliban Rule&#8221; has just been released in Hamburg cinemas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The film looks at events after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 and focuses on the Taliban&#8217;s entry into a US base in Kabul that was previously used as a secret CIA outpost.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The documentary follows the developments at the Hollywood Gate base over the course of a year, showing how the Taliban, using leftover weapons and equipment, formed a new combat unit and rapidly increased their power.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The film provides a detailed picture of the Taliban\u2019s internal command center and shows the process of transforming this extremist militant group into a powerful military regime.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>By presenting unprecedented documents and images, the documentary director has been able to provide a fresh look at the rapid rise of the Taliban and the consequences of the hasty withdrawal of American forces in Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The film\u2019s release in international cinemas has attracted the attention of the media and those interested in security and historical issues in Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new documentary shows the rise of the Taliban after the US withdrawal. The documentary &#8220;Hollywood Gate: A Year Under Taliban Rule&#8221; has just been released in Hamburg cinemas. The film looks at events after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 and focuses on the Taliban&#8217;s entry into a US base in Kabul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13052,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13051\/revisions\/13052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}