{"id":24163,"date":"2018-12-03T17:22:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T17:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24163"},"modified":"2018-12-03T17:22:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T17:22:52","slug":"syria-coalition-kills-daesh-leader-linked-to-hostage-executions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24163","title":{"rendered":"Syria coalition kills Daesh leader linked to hostage executions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1414791\/middle-east\" readability=\"45\">\n<p>\nBEIRUT: The US-led coalition against Daesh said Monday it killed a senior militant involved in the executions of an American aid worker and other Western hostages.<br \/>Abu Al-Umarayn was involved in the November 2014 beheading of Peter Kassig, a former US ranger who was doing volunteer humanitarian work when he was captured in 2013.<br \/>\u201cHe was killed and more information will be available after a full assessment,\u201d Sean Ryan, spokesman for the US-led coalition, said in a statement issued after the Sunday strikes.<br \/>\u201cAl Umarayn had given indications of posing an imminent threat to coalition forces and he was involved in the killing of American citizen and former US Army Ranger, Peter Kassig,\u201d he said.<br \/>Ryan said the extremist had also been involved in the execution of several other prisoners.<br \/>It is the first time the coalition, which has been hunting down Daesh militants in Iraq and Syria since 2014, has announced the killing of a extremist leader linked to Kassig\u2019s death.<br \/>At the time of the execution, Daesh released a video showing Kassig\u2019s severed head but did not publish footage of the decapitation, as it had done for other hostages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT: The US-led coalition against Daesh said Monday it killed a senior militant involved in the executions of an American aid worker and other Western hostages.Abu Al-Umarayn was involved in the November 2014 beheading of Peter Kassig, a former US ranger who was doing volunteer humanitarian work when he was captured in 2013.\u201cHe was killed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24163","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\/24163","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=24163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}