{"id":39908,"date":"2015-01-26T19:50:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T11:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=39908"},"modified":"2015-01-26T19:50:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T11:50:37","slug":"activists-kurds-islamic-state-group-nearly-out-of-kobani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/26\/activists-kurds-islamic-state-group-nearly-out-of-kobani\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists, Kurds: Islamic State group nearly out of Kobani"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35083\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35083\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_232674181.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35083\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_232674181.jpg\" alt=\"(journalistanbul \/ Shutterstock.com)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_232674181.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_232674181-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_232674181-900x598.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(journalistanbul \/ Shutterstock.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BEIRUT &#8212; Syrian activists and Kurdish officials say the extremist Islamic State group has been nearly pushed out of the Syrian border town of Kobani.<\/p>\n<p>Sporadic fighting continued Monday on the eastern edges of the city near Turkey. However, expelling the militants marks a major symbolic victory both for the Kurds and the U.S.-led coalition targeting the Islamic State group in airstrikes.<\/p>\n<p>The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and senior Kurdish official Idriss Nassan said the Islamic State group had been nearly pushed out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT &#8212; Syrian activists and Kurdish officials say the extremist Islamic State group has been nearly pushed out of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":35083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-w","mauthors-zeina-karam","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39908","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=39908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}