{"id":41730,"date":"2019-11-27T12:22:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T12:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41730"},"modified":"2019-11-27T12:22:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T12:22:12","slug":"egypt-uses-prosecution-branch-to-crush-dissent-amnesty-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41730","title":{"rendered":"Egypt uses prosecution branch to crush dissent: Amnesty International"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"70\">\n<p>\nISTANBUL:\u00a0A car bomb killed at least 17 people and wounded 20 others in the Turkish-controlled region of northern Syria on Tuesday, Turkey\u2019s Defense Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe attack took place in the Tal Halaf village west of the city of Ras Al-Ayn, which is now controlled by the Turkish military after its offensive in October, the ministry said on its official Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt blamed the attack on the Kurdish People\u2019s Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara accuses of being the Syrian offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK) that has waged an insurgency against Turkey since 1984.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe PKK\/YPG terror group continues its car bombings aimed at civilians. The child murderers this time detonated a car bomb in Tal Halaf village west of Ras Al-Ayn, killing 17 people and wounding more than 20,\u201d the Defense Ministry said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\nBritain-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the attack but gave a lower toll, saying 11 people \u2014 including at least three civilians \u2014 had been killed.<\/p>\n<p>\nBut it said the death toll is likely to climb due to the severity of some of the injuries suffered.<\/p>\n<p>\nTurkish forces and their proxies \u2014 former Syrian rebels hired as a ground force by Ankara \u2014 launched an offensive against Kurdish forces in Syria on Oct. 9.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe military action came after US President Donald Trump ordered his troops to withdraw in a move that observers condemned as a betrayal of their Kurdish partners in the war against Daesh in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn its operation, Turkey secured a strip of land in northern Syria after signing separate deals with the US and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnkara says it wants to establish a \u201csafe zone\u201d in which to resettle some of the 3.6 million Syrian refugees it hosts on its soil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL:\u00a0A car bomb killed at least 17 people and wounded 20 others in the Turkish-controlled region of northern Syria on Tuesday, Turkey\u2019s Defense Ministry said. The attack took place in the Tal Halaf village west of the city of Ras Al-Ayn, which is now controlled by the Turkish military after its offensive in October, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41730","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\/41730","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=41730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}