{"id":100105,"date":"2017-04-27T03:56:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T07:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=100105"},"modified":"2017-04-27T03:56:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T07:56:38","slug":"big-blast-rocks-damascus-intl-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/27\/big-blast-rocks-damascus-intl-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Big blast rocks Damascus&#8217; int&#8217;l airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_100106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100106\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/800px-Damascus_-_International_DAM_-_OSDI_AN2190526.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100106\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/800px-Damascus_-_International_DAM_-_OSDI_AN2190526.jpg\" alt=\"A big explosion rattled the surrounding area of the international airport of the capital Damascus early Thursday morning, eyewitnesses told Xinhua. (Photo by Igor Bubin [GFDL 1.2 (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/licenses\/old-licenses\/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/licenses\/old-licenses\/fdl-1.2.html)])\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/800px-Damascus_-_International_DAM_-_OSDI_AN2190526.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/800px-Damascus_-_International_DAM_-_OSDI_AN2190526-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/800px-Damascus_-_International_DAM_-_OSDI_AN2190526-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A big explosion rattled the surrounding area of the international airport of the capital Damascus early Thursday morning, eyewitnesses told Xinhua. (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ADamascus_-_International_(DAM_-_OSDI)_AN2190526.jpg\">Igor Bubin [GFDL 1.2 (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/licenses\/old-licenses\/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/licenses\/old-licenses\/fdl-1.2.html)])<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>DAMASCUS\u2014A big explosion rattled the surrounding area of the international airport of the capital Damascus early Thursday morning, eyewitnesses told Xinhua.<\/p>\n<p>Following the blast, whose cause is still unclear, fire broke out near the airport, and lit up the sky over that area at dawn.<\/p>\n<p>Several blasts were heard near the airport and that people near the southern part of Damascus, where the airport is located, woke up to the rattling sounds of explosions.<\/p>\n<p>Russian media outlets said that the airport was struck by five Israeli airstrikes, whose targets are not clear. The airport has a military section which has warplanes and munition.<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed, it would not be the first Israeli strike against Syria, as Israelis have ramped up their airstrikes on military positions in Syria recently, targeting a military base in Qunaitera province in the south this week, and a military position near the ancient city of Palmyra last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAMASCUS\u2014A big explosion rattled the surrounding area of the international airport of the capital Damascus early Thursday morning, eyewitnesses told &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":100106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[18431],"class_list":["post-100105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-damascus-intl-airport","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}