{"id":33792,"date":"2019-03-02T04:25:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T04:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33792"},"modified":"2019-03-02T04:25:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T04:25:05","slug":"chlorine-used-in-attack-on-syrias-douma-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33792","title":{"rendered":"Chlorine used in attack on Syria\u2019s Douma: watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"67\">\n<p>\nDEIR EZZOR: Kurdish-led troops launched a final assault on Friday against diehard Daesh fighters clinging to the last sliver of their \u201ccaliphate\u201d in eastern Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) resumed their offensive after plucking a last batch of civilians from the riverside village of Baghouz where the militants are holed up.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cNothing remains in Baghouz except for terrorists. The battle &#8230; will not end until the elimination of Daesh and the liberation of the village,\u201d SDF spokesman Mustafa Bali said. \u201cWe expect a fierce and heavy battle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nA few dozen women, children and elderly men were evacuated from Baghouz on Friday and taken by truck to a screening center. Their number was in sharp decline from the thousands who had been pouring out of the Daesh-held pocket in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>\nWearing an orange hoodie and a long beige raincoat, one man knelt on the rocky ground, surrounded by armed SDF fighters. Other men were patted down and had their belongings searched.<\/p>\n<p>\nFacing airstrikes from the US-led coalition, Daesh fighters who have been besieged for weeks are unlikely to resist for long. The SDF expects to declare victory in one week.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Daesh enclave at Baghouz, a tiny pocket on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, is the last populated territory held by the militants, who have been steadily driven by an array of enemies from swaths of land they once held.<\/p>\n<p>\nNevertheless, the group remains a security threat, using guerrilla tactics and holding some territory in a remote area west of the Euphrates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEIR EZZOR: Kurdish-led troops launched a final assault on Friday against diehard Daesh fighters clinging to the last sliver of their \u201ccaliphate\u201d in eastern Syria. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) resumed their offensive after plucking a last batch of civilians from the riverside village of Baghouz where the militants are holed up. \u201cNothing remains in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33792","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\/33792","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=33792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}