{"id":241685,"date":"2020-01-07T22:03:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T03:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=241685"},"modified":"2020-01-07T22:03:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T03:03:58","slug":"iran-launches-missiles-vs-us-forces-in-iraq-pentagon-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/01\/07\/iran-launches-missiles-vs-us-forces-in-iraq-pentagon-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran launches missiles vs. US forces in Iraq, Pentagon confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_201230\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201230\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/shutterstock_1086543533.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-201230\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/shutterstock_1086543533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/shutterstock_1086543533.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/shutterstock_1086543533-768x404.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-201230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;At approximately 5:30 p.m. (EST) on January 7, Iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against U.S. military and coalition forces in Iraq,&#8221; the Pentagon said in a statement. (Shutterstock photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"Videobox\"><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Pentagon confirmed Tuesday that Iran has launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against US military and coalition forces in Iraq.<\/div>\n<div class=\"Videobox\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"Videobox\">\n<p>&#8220;At approximately 5:30 p.m. (EST) on January 7, Iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against U.S. military and coalition forces in Iraq,&#8221; the Pentagon said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is clear that these missiles were launched from Iran and targeted at least two Iraqi military bases hosting U.S. military and coalition personnel at Al-Assad &amp; Irbil,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The White House said earlier Tuesday that it had noticed the reports of attacks on US facilities in Iraq, saying that President Donald Trump is monitoring the situation closely and consulting with his national security team.\u00a0<em><strong>(Xinhua)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0&#8212; The Pentagon confirmed Tuesday that Iran has launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against US military and coalition &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":201230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-xinhua","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241685","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241687,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241685\/revisions\/241687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}