{"id":34619,"date":"2019-03-07T23:23:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T23:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34619"},"modified":"2019-03-07T23:23:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T23:23:49","slug":"sudan-unions-call-for-protests-ahead-of-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34619","title":{"rendered":"Sudan unions call for protests ahead of Women\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"56\">\n<p>\nLONDON:\u00a0The Iranian regime is seeking to dominate countries in the Middle East, the top US\u00a0commander for the Middle East\u00a0said Thursday\u00a0at a House Armed Services Committee (HASC) hearing on national security challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\nGen. Joseph Votel\u00a0also said\u00a0that although Daesh\u00a0militants are losing the last of their territory in Syria, the militants who remain are unbroken and radicalized, and represent a &#8220;serious generational problem.&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;The ISIS population being evacuated from the remaining vestiges of the caliphate largely remains unrepentant, unbroken and radicalized. We will need to maintain a vigilant offensive against this now widely dispersed and disaggregated organization,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Reduction of the physical caliphate is a monumental military accomplishment &#8211;\u00a0but the fight against ISIS and violent extremism is far from over and our mission remains the same,&#8221; General Joseph Votel, head of the US Central Command, told Congress.<br \/>Votel told\u00a0the\u00a0House committee that unless Daesh\u00a0and its ideology are handled properly, the militant group\u00a0will sow the seeds of future violent extremism.<br \/>The US commander&#8217;s assessment provides a reality check to President Donald Trump&#8217;s repeated assertion in recent weeks that Daesh\u00a0has been defeated and lost 100 percent of its &#8220;caliphate,&#8221; which once covered a vast territory straddling Syria and Iraq.<br \/>Votel says Daesh\u00a0now holds less than a single square mile, but has kept that that sliver of land for weeks, and many militants have escaped and are in hiding.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON:\u00a0The Iranian regime is seeking to dominate countries in the Middle East, the top US\u00a0commander for the Middle East\u00a0said Thursday\u00a0at a House Armed Services Committee (HASC) hearing on national security challenges. Gen. Joseph Votel\u00a0also said\u00a0that although Daesh\u00a0militants are losing the last of their territory in Syria, the militants who remain are unbroken and radicalized, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34619","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=34619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}