{"id":18858,"date":"2018-10-17T18:22:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T18:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18858"},"modified":"2018-10-17T18:22:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T18:22:33","slug":"can-the-opening-of-the-nassib-crossing-end-of-syrias-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18858","title":{"rendered":"Can the opening of the Nassib crossing end of Syria&#8217;s isolation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"67\">\n<p>Several border crossings between Syria and neighbouring countries have reopened in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>It has eased years of political and economic isolation for the country during a seven-year civil war. On Monday, the Nassib crossing with Jordan opened for the first time in three years.<\/p>\n<p>As it is now apparent that Bashar al-Assad will remain in power in Syria, the region and world powers struggle with whether and how to reintegrate Syria from its isolation.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Zeina Khodr reports from Lebanon&#8217;s border with Syria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several border crossings between Syria and neighbouring countries have reopened in recent weeks. It has eased years of political and economic isolation for the country during a seven-year civil war. On Monday, the Nassib crossing with Jordan opened for the first time in three years. As it is now apparent that Bashar al-Assad will remain&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18858","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\/18858","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=18858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}