{"id":103968,"date":"2017-05-24T22:41:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T02:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=103968"},"modified":"2017-05-24T22:41:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T02:41:25","slug":"syrian-army-kills-wounds-3000-is-militants-in-eastern-aleppo-countryside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/24\/syrian-army-kills-wounds-3000-is-militants-in-eastern-aleppo-countryside\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian army kills, wounds 3,000 IS militants in eastern Aleppo countryside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_103969\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103969\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Western_al-Bab_offensive_2016_within_Northern_Syria.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103969\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Western_al-Bab_offensive_2016_within_Northern_Syria.svg_.png\" alt=\"The Syrian army said in a statement that it has killed and wounded 3,000 Islamic State (IS) militants during operations in the eastern countryside of Aleppo, state news agency SANA reported on Wednesday. (Photo: by MrPenguin20OpenStreetMap contributors (Own workopenstreetmap.org) [ODbL (http:\/\/opendatacommons.org\/licenses\/odbl\/1.0\/) or CC BY-SA 2.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0)],)\" width=\"800\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Western_al-Bab_offensive_2016_within_Northern_Syria.svg_.png 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Western_al-Bab_offensive_2016_within_Northern_Syria.svg_-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Western_al-Bab_offensive_2016_within_Northern_Syria.svg_-768x533.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Syrian army said in a statement that it has killed and wounded 3,000 Islamic State (IS) militants during operations in the eastern countryside of Aleppo, state news agency SANA reported on Wednesday. (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AWestern_al-Bab_offensive_(2016)_(within_Northern_Syria).svg\">MrPenguin20OpenStreetMap contributors (Own workopenstreetmap.org) [ODbL (http:\/\/opendatacommons.org\/licenses\/odbl\/1.0\/) or <\/a>CC BY-SA 2.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0)],)<\/figcaption><\/figure>DAMASCUS\u2014The Syrian army said in a statement that it has killed and wounded 3,000 Islamic State (IS) militants during operations in the eastern countryside of Aleppo, state news agency SANA reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The army said it has captured over 28 villages and towns in the eastern countryside of Aleppo, following battles with the IS.<\/p>\n<p>The statement also declared the military recapture of the Jarrah air base in eastern Aleppo.<\/p>\n<p>This air base has a strategic importance because of its location in the central part of the eastern countryside of Aleppo. It also overlooks IS-held areas such as the cities of Deir Hafer and Maskaneh.<\/p>\n<p>During the operations in eastern Aleppo, the army killed IS commanders of several nationalities, including Iraqis, Tunisians, Saudis and Egyptians, it said.<\/p>\n<p>However, SANA did not give a timeframe for the operations.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian army started its operations in eastern Aleppo countryside earlier this year, following the recapture of the eastern part of Aleppo city in December 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAMASCUS\u2014The Syrian army said in a statement that it has killed and wounded 3,000 Islamic State (IS) militants during operations &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":103969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[19523],"class_list":["post-103968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-aleppo-battle","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103968","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=103968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}