{"id":36935,"date":"2019-03-23T11:23:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T11:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36935"},"modified":"2019-03-23T11:23:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T11:23:43","slug":"daesh-defeated-caliphate-eliminated-us-backed-sdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36935","title":{"rendered":"Daesh defeated, \u2018caliphate\u2019 eliminated: US-backed SDF"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1471161\/middle-east\" readability=\"47\">\n<p>\nBEIRUT: Daesh has been defeated at its final shred of territory of Baghouz in Syria, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Saturday, announcing the end of its self-declared \u201ccaliphate\u201d that once spanned a third of Iraq and Syria.<br \/>The SDF declared the \u201ctotal elimination of (the) so-called caliphate,\u201d Mustafa Bali, head of the SDF media office, wrote on Twitter.<br \/>\u201cBaghouz has been liberated. The military victory against Daesh has been accomplished,\u201d he wrote.<br \/>The SDF has been battling to capture Baghouz at the Iraqi border for weeks.<br \/>\u201cWe renew our pledge to continue the war and to pursue their remnants until their complete elimination,\u201d he wrote.<br \/>Though the defeat of Daesh at Baghouz ends the group\u2019s grip over the extremist quasi-state straddling Syria and Iraq that it declared in 2014, it remains a threat.<br \/>Some of its fighters still hold out in Syria\u2019s remote central desert and in Iraqi cities they have slipped into the shadows, staging sudden shootings or kidnappings and awaiting a chance to rise again.<br \/>The US believes the group\u2019s leader, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, is in Iraq. He stood at the pulpit of the great medieval mosque in Mosul in 2014 to declare himself caliph, sovereign over all Muslims.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT: Daesh has been defeated at its final shred of territory of Baghouz in Syria, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Saturday, announcing the end of its self-declared \u201ccaliphate\u201d that once spanned a third of Iraq and Syria.The SDF declared the \u201ctotal elimination of (the) so-called caliphate,\u201d Mustafa Bali, head of the SDF&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-36935","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\/36935","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=36935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}