{"id":29568,"date":"2019-01-17T21:22:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T21:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29568"},"modified":"2019-01-17T21:22:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T21:22:51","slug":"suicide-blast-may-be-a-taste-of-whats-to-come-as-us-forces-leave-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29568","title":{"rendered":"Suicide blast may be a taste of what&#8217;s to come as US forces leave Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Sha&#39;fa, Syria (CNN)<\/cite>The drive down to the frontlines with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/08\/08\/world\/isis-fast-facts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">ISIS<\/a> is long and dangerous. Our escorts from the Kurdish-led forces insisted on taking us in armored vehicles from their base in the al-Omar oilfield. There are ISIS sleeper cells all around, they explained. They come out at night to plant roadside bombs. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">For nearly three hours, we bumped through dusty abandoned villages. As you get closer to the frontlines, there is little to see but miles and miles of rubble. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">We stop briefly in the town of Hajin. ISIS was pushed out weeks ago but there&#8217;s no one here to celebrate. US coalition air power has obliterated much of the town. A handful of young fighters man a checkpoint in the rubble. For many of the people who lived in these areas, this is what liberation looks like. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sha&#039;fa, Syria (CNN)The drive down to the frontlines with ISIS is long and dangerous. Our escorts from the Kurdish-led forces insisted on taking us in armored vehicles from their base in the al-Omar oilfield. There are ISIS sleeper cells all around, they explained. They come out at night to plant roadside bombs. For nearly three&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29568","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=29568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}