{"id":28988,"date":"2019-01-13T18:23:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T18:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28988"},"modified":"2019-01-13T18:23:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T18:23:41","slug":"us-backed-syrian-force-daesh-is-in-its-final-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28988","title":{"rendered":"US-backed Syrian force: Daesh is in \u2018its final moments\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1434886\/middle-east\" readability=\"45\">\n<p>\nBEIRUT: Daesh militants are &#8220;living their final moments&#8221; in the last enclave they hold in Syria, near the Iraqi border, where the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have stepped up their attacks in the last two days, an SDF official told Reuters on Sunday.<br \/>&#8220;They are living the final moments and realise that this battle is the battle to eliminate them,&#8221; said Mustafa Bali, SDF media office head.<br \/>Asked about SDF progress, the spokesman for the US-led coalition, Colonel Sean Ryan, said: &#8220;The SDF is making great progress and continues to liberate more territory once held by ISIS (Islamic State), but the fight continues.&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;The lasting defeat of ISIS is still the mission and they still present a very real threat to the long-term stability in this region, so it is not over yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT: Daesh militants are &#8220;living their final moments&#8221; in the last enclave they hold in Syria, near the Iraqi border, where the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have stepped up their attacks in the last two days, an SDF official told Reuters on Sunday.&#8221;They are living the final moments and realise that this battle is the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28988","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\/28988","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=28988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}