{"id":23068,"date":"2018-11-24T11:23:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T11:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23068"},"modified":"2018-11-24T11:23:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T11:23:04","slug":"suspected-daesh-gunmen-kill-nine-in-southern-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23068","title":{"rendered":"Suspected Daesh gunmen kill nine in southern Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1410176\/middle-east\" readability=\"44\">\n<p>\nBENGHAZI, Libya: Gunmen on Friday raided a town deep in Libya\u2019s southern desert, killing nine people and kidnapping several others, a resident said, with officials blaming the attack on the militant group Daesh.<br \/>A military source said the attackers had occupied a police station in the oasis town of Tazerbo, north of Kufra, until residents expelled them. The source also said the attackers were believed to belong to Daesh.<br \/>The town \u2014 which was a resting point for tourists going on Sahara camping tours before Libya plunged into chaos in 2011 \u2014 listed six residents on its website as having been killed.<br \/>A resident said nine people had been killed and 10 wounded, adding that the attackers had kidnapped several policemen and civilians.<br \/>Daesh has staged several attacks on southern towns since withdrawing into the desert after losing its main stronghold, the coastal city of Sirte, late in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGHAZI, Libya: Gunmen on Friday raided a town deep in Libya\u2019s southern desert, killing nine people and kidnapping several others, a resident said, with officials blaming the attack on the militant group Daesh.A military source said the attackers had occupied a police station in the oasis town of Tazerbo, north of Kufra, until residents expelled&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23068","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\/23068","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=23068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}