{"id":14057,"date":"2018-09-06T09:27:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T09:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14057"},"modified":"2018-09-06T09:27:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T09:27:55","slug":"iran-summit-seeks-to-avert-a-bloodbath-in-northwestern-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14057","title":{"rendered":"Iran summit seeks to avert a bloodbath in northwestern Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1367616\/middle-east\" readability=\"43\">\n<p>\nBEIRUT: When the presidents of Russia, Turkey and Iran meet Friday in Tehran, all eyes will be on their diplomacy reaching a last-minute deal to avert a bloodbath in Idlib, Syria\u2019s crowded northwestern province and last opposition stronghold.<br \/>The three leaders, whose nations are all under US sanctions, have an interest in working together to contain a potentially catastrophic offensive by President Bashar Assad\u2019s forces to recapture the province, but Idlib is complicated and they have little common ground when it comes to Syria.<br \/>The province and surrounding area is home to about 3 million people \u2014 nearly half of them civilians displaced from other parts of Syria \u2014 but also an estimated 10,000 hard-core fighters, including Al-Qaeda-linked militants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT: When the presidents of Russia, Turkey and Iran meet Friday in Tehran, all eyes will be on their diplomacy reaching a last-minute deal to avert a bloodbath in Idlib, Syria\u2019s crowded northwestern province and last opposition stronghold.The three leaders, whose nations are all under US sanctions, have an interest in working together to contain&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14057","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\/14057","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=14057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}