{"id":26934,"date":"2018-12-26T00:22:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T00:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26934"},"modified":"2018-12-26T00:22:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T00:22:16","slug":"syrian-air-defences-intercept-hostile-targets-near-damascus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26934","title":{"rendered":"Syrian air defences intercept &#8216;hostile targets&#8217; near Damascus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"88\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Syrian air defences intercepted &#8220;hostile targets&#8221; near the capital Damascus, the country&#8217;s state media said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;Our air defences have intercepted a number of hostile targets near Damascus,&#8221; Syrian state TV said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Loud explosions were heard in the Syrian capital, a Reuters witness said.<\/p>\n<p>The nature of the targets was not clear.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanese state-run National News Agency said Israeli war planes performed mock raids above southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The aggression originated from above the Lebanese territories and a number of hostile targets were downed,&#8221; Syrian TV added.<\/p>\n<p>An Israeli military spokeswoman declined to comment on the reports.<\/p>\n<p><span>Israel has in the past carried out dozens of air strikes in neighbouring Syria against what it says are Iranian targets, many of them in the area south of Damascus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At the end of November, Syria said its air defences had targeted and downed a number of &#8220;hostile targets&#8221; over the Kisweh area south of Damascus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In early December SANA and state television reported that Syrian air defences had opened fire near Damascus airport but later both state media outlets withdrew the report without explanation.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syrian air defences intercepted &#8220;hostile targets&#8221; near the capital Damascus, the country&#8217;s state media said on Tuesday. &#8220;Our air defences have intercepted a number of hostile targets near Damascus,&#8221; Syrian state TV said. Loud explosions were heard in the Syrian capital, a Reuters witness said. The nature of the targets was not clear. Lebanese state-run&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26934","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\/26934","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=26934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}