{"id":13825,"date":"2018-09-04T09:26:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T09:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13825"},"modified":"2018-09-04T09:26:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T09:26:14","slug":"airstrike-near-us-base-in-southeastern-syria-kills-8-pro-assad-fighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13825","title":{"rendered":"Airstrike near US base in southeastern Syria kills 8 pro-Assad fighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1366431\/middle-east\" readability=\"46\">\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\nDAMASCUS: An airstrike near a US base in southeastern Syria has killed at least eight pro-regime fighters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Monday.<br \/>Four Syrians, one Iranian national and three other non-Syrian fighters were killed in the strike carried out on Saturday, the Britain-based war monitor said.<br \/>At least 11 people were wounded in the attack, according to Observatory figures.<br \/>\u201cA convoy of Iranian forces and allied militia was hit by airstrikes as it drove near Al-Tanf base,\u201d the monitor\u2019s head Rami Abdel Rahman said.<br \/>He could not confirm the strike had been conducted by the US-led coalition present in the region.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"188\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/userimages\/1347\/fastf_10.png\" width=\"309\"><br \/>A coalition spokesman said the Al-Tanf base \u201creceived fire from unknown forces, with no damage and the coalition forces did not fire back.\u201d<br \/>Several strikes against Syrian regime or allied forces have in the past been attributed to US forces, which were deployed with the declared goal of fighting Daesh.<br \/>The base, set up in 2016 near the borders with Iraq and Jordan, was also used for the training of so-called \u201cvetted opposition\u201d to the regime of President Bashar Assad.<br \/>Despite a 55-km deconfliction zone around the base, Al-Tanf is seen as a potential flashpoint between US and Iranian or Tehran-backed forces.<br \/>The presence of a US base in the arid border region has been a source of tension and its dismantling is often cited as a key demand by Damascus and its allies.<br \/>Beyond the battle against terrorists in their nearby desert hideouts, analysts say Washington sees the base as disrupting Iranian efforts to open a east-west land corridor from Tehran to Lebanon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAMASCUS: An airstrike near a US base in southeastern Syria has killed at least eight pro-regime fighters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Monday.Four Syrians, one Iranian national and three other non-Syrian fighters were killed in the strike carried out on Saturday, the Britain-based war monitor said.At least 11 people were wounded in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}