{"id":14703,"date":"2018-09-11T14:23:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T14:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14703"},"modified":"2018-09-11T14:23:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T14:23:13","slug":"humanitarian-group-says-100-migrants-die-off-libyan-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14703","title":{"rendered":"Humanitarian group says 100 migrants die off Libyan coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1370246\/middle-east\" readability=\"49\">\n<p>\nBEIRUT:\u00a0An ambush by Daesh has killed 21 regime fighters in Syria&#8217;s southern province of Sweida, a Britain-based war monitor said on Tuesday.<br \/>The attack occurred late Monday in the rural Tulul al-Safa area of the province, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) southeast of Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.<br \/>Eight extremists were also killed in subsequent clashes in the area, which is the extremists&#8217; last bastion in Sweida, the Observatory said.<br \/>State news agency SANA reported heavy clashes with Daesh in the area, adding that government aircraft and artillery \u201ctargeted hideouts and positions\u201d held by the group.<br \/>Government forces have been fighting Daesh in Sweida&#8217;s arid plains since extremists carried out a wave of attacks in the mainly Druze province on July 25, killing 250 people according to the Observatory.<br \/>During their rampage, which targeted the provincial capital as well as rural areas, the extremists also seized around 30 hostages, mostly women and their children.<br \/>At least 27 are believed to still be held, according to Human Rights Watch, after Daesh said it had beheaded a 19-year-old man and announced an elderly woman had died.<br \/>Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said the hostages were believed to be held captive in the Tulul al-Safa area.<br \/>A source in Sweida told AFP that families had had no word of their kidnapped relatives in weeks.<br \/>Daesh has lost nearly all of the great swathes of territory straddling Iraq and Syria which it seized in 2014, but retains a presence in the vast desert that lies between Damascus and the Iraqi border, and holds a pocket in the Euphrates Valley in the east.<br \/>A Kurdish-Arab alliance launched an assault on the pocket&#8217;s main town of Hajin on Monday with support from the US-led coalition fighting Daesh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT:\u00a0An ambush by Daesh has killed 21 regime fighters in Syria&#8217;s southern province of Sweida, a Britain-based war monitor said on Tuesday.The attack occurred late Monday in the rural Tulul al-Safa area of the province, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) southeast of Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.Eight extremists were also killed in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14703","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\/14703","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=14703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}