{"id":18702,"date":"2018-10-16T14:26:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T14:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18702"},"modified":"2018-10-16T14:26:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T14:26:20","slug":"bahrain-jails-7-over-oil-pipeline-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18702","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain jails 7 over oil pipeline blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1388611\/middle-east\" readability=\"47\">\n<p>\nTEHRAN: Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards have carried out 700 drone strikes against forces of the Daesh group in Syria, its aerospace chief told conservative news agency Fars on Tuesday.<br \/>\u201cOur bomber drones have carried out 700 military operations using smart bombs against Daesh,\u201d said Brig. Gen. Amirali Hajjizadeh.<br \/>\u201cThey were used in eliminating tanks, personnel carriers, cars used for suicide attacks and 23- millimeter cannons \u2014 these were targets prized by Daesh and we significantly turned the tide of battle,\u201d he added.<br \/>The guards most recently used military drones against Daesh targets in Syria on October 1, in retaliation for a deadly attack in September on a military parade in Iran\u2019s southwest claimed by the militant group.<br \/>Seven military drones as well as six ballistic missiles struck the \u201cDaesh headquarters\u201d in the eastern Syrian town of Hajjin, about 24 kilometers north of Albu Kamal bordering Iraq, state TV reported.<br \/>Iranian media said published images indicated the drones were locally-produced \u201cSaegheh\u201d craft, reverse-engineered from a US RQ-170 Sentinel captured by Iran in 2011.<br \/>Iran\u2019s armed forces chief of staff, Major General Mohammad Bagheri, said at the time that the strikes were the first time the drones had \u201ccrossed multiple countries and reached their targets.\u201d<br \/>It was also the first time Iran had officially announced it was using combat drones outside of its borders, the conservative Tasnim news agency said.<br \/>Iran is a key backer of Syria\u2019s President Bashar Assad and a large contingent of Revolutionary Guards operate in the country as \u201cmilitary advisers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards have carried out 700 drone strikes against forces of the Daesh group in Syria, its aerospace chief told conservative news agency Fars on Tuesday.\u201cOur bomber drones have carried out 700 military operations using smart bombs against Daesh,\u201d said Brig. Gen. Amirali Hajjizadeh.\u201cThey were used in eliminating tanks, personnel carriers, cars used&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18702","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\/18702","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=18702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}