{"id":20069,"date":"2018-10-27T19:25:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T19:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20069"},"modified":"2018-10-27T19:25:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T19:25:15","slug":"islamic-jihad-announces-immediate-halt-to-gaza-rocket-fire-on-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20069","title":{"rendered":"Islamic Jihad announces immediate halt to Gaza rocket fire on Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1394761\/middle-east\" readability=\"53\">\n<p>\nBEIRUT:\u00a0Daesh has killed 41 US-backed fighters in Syria who are battling to oust the extremists from their eastern holdout of Hajin on the Iraqi border, a war monitor said Saturday.<br \/>Daesh late Friday dispatched suicide bombers as part of a counter-attack against the Syrian Democratic Forces, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human rights.<br \/>The SDF fighters, who are backed by US-led coalition air strikes, were killed overnight, the Observatory said.<br \/>In a statement on the Telegram messaging app, Daesh said it had attacked the village of Sousa late Friday and detonated a car bomb near the village of Al-Baghuza further south, down the Euphrates river.<br \/>The SDF last month launched an offensive against the militants in the Hajin pocket on the eastern banks of the Euphrates, in Deir Ezzor province.<br \/>Daesh has staged a bloody fightback.<br \/>Since September 10, 270 SDF fighters and 496 Daesh militants have been killed in the offensive, the Observatory says.<br \/>The coalition estimates that 2,000 Daesh fighters remain in the Hajin area.<br \/>Last week, the Observatory said coalition air strikes had killed 41 civilians in Sousa, 10 of them children, on October 18 and 19.<br \/>But the coalition said it had targeted a Daesh command post on October 18, and denied carrying out any strikes in the area the following day.<br \/>Daesh overran large swathes of Syria and neighbouring Iraq in 2014, proclaiming a &#8220;caliphate&#8221; across land it controlled.<br \/>But the extremist group has since lost most of that territory to various offensives in both countries.<br \/>In Syria, its presence has been reduced to parts of the vast Badia desert and the Hajin pocket.<br \/>Syria&#8217;s war has killed more than 360,000 people since it erupted in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT:\u00a0Daesh has killed 41 US-backed fighters in Syria who are battling to oust the extremists from their eastern holdout of Hajin on the Iraqi border, a war monitor said Saturday.Daesh late Friday dispatched suicide bombers as part of a counter-attack against the Syrian Democratic Forces, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human rights.The SDF fighters,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20069","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\/20069","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=20069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}