{"id":36491,"date":"2019-03-20T22:22:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T22:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36491"},"modified":"2019-03-20T22:22:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T22:22:59","slug":"daesh-holdouts-in-syria-battle-gone-by-tonight-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36491","title":{"rendered":"Daesh holdouts in Syria battle \u2018gone by tonight:\u2019 Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1470006\/middle-east\" readability=\"46\">\n<p>\nWASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the Daesh\u2019s last bastion in Syria will be \u201cgone\u201d by the end of the day.<br \/>He showed off maps that illustrate the dramatic shrinking of territory held by the militant group in the period from his election in 2016 and now.<br \/>In one map shown by Trump to reporters in Washington and then again at a rally to factory workers in Lima, Ohio, Daesh territory marked in red extends over large areas. A second map, he said, shows the militant organization about to be wiped out.<br \/>\u201cThere is no red. In fact, there\u2019s actually a tiny spot which will be gone by tonight,\u201d he said.<br \/>Fighting continued in Baghouz, Syria, on Wednesday, but the Daesh militants are down to a tiny scrap of land, where they are surrounded and under heavy fire from a US-led coalition of Kurds, Syrians and others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the Daesh\u2019s last bastion in Syria will be \u201cgone\u201d by the end of the day.He showed off maps that illustrate the dramatic shrinking of territory held by the militant group in the period from his election in 2016 and now.In one map shown by Trump to reporters&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-36491","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\/36491","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=36491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}