{"id":85665,"date":"2017-01-18T00:26:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T05:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=85665"},"modified":"2017-01-18T00:26:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T05:26:34","slug":"blast-kills-9-syrian-soldiers-east-of-damascus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/18\/blast-kills-9-syrian-soldiers-east-of-damascus\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast kills 9 Syrian soldiers east of Damascus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_85666\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85666\" style=\"width: 613px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Damascus.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85666\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Damascus.png\" alt=\"Blast kills 9 Syrian soldiers east of Damascus (Photo: upyernoz\/Flickr0\" width=\"613\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Damascus.png 613w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Damascus-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blast kills 9 Syrian soldiers east of Damascus (Photo: upyernoz<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/upyernoz\/48691572\/in\/photolist-5iyiS-r6XWP6-uxFStF-7t7WwF-95d9Rs-FP73T-vo3DL5-8QaNy9-3mcjfu-5fsvb4-jPYdsR-8XLeYa-3mcjj5-eeguhm-2vX8Qp-3mcuX5-5pmR6C-3m7UZx-3mcjnw-3mcjvU-eegzKd-8vt4z4-6VAdcx-eegCDQ-9fCjwV-9jBK6E-boYVcj-3cyi32-5iwHb-2vX8R8-7tcwUu-8S4QcC-2vX8QB-3dSjtL-81N7oU-bMhdk-5iwBS-6GEm9x-6DLRhM-C9DzcM-5iwJa-FPsU1-5iy2K-7u3R7r-v78uve-vayR2A-uvix3x-5iFkz-6C2tTp-7tbYxm\">\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DAMASCUS\u2014At least nine Syrian military personnel, including an officer, were killed by a blast east of the capital Damascus on Tuesday, a monitor group reported.<\/p>\n<p>The rebels&#8217; Fajer al-Ummah, Arabic for the Dawn of Nation, detonated a tunnel in the eastern suburb of Harasta, near a military base, killing the soldiers, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p>The UK-based watchdog group said the death toll will likely rise due to the large number of critically wounded soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>It added that the Syrian army shelled Harasta on Tuesday, spelling no details on causalities.<\/p>\n<p>Harasta is one of the key rebel-held areas near Damascus. This area is adjacent to the international road connecting Damascus with central and northern Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The rebels in Harasta have repeatedly fired sniper shots at passenger buses on the international highway, prompting the government to assign a sub-road for passengers to skip passing near Harasta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAMASCUS\u2014At least nine Syrian military personnel, including an officer, were killed by a blast east of the capital Damascus on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":85666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[11940,13836,13835],"class_list":["post-85665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-damascus","tag-damascus-blast","tag-fajer-al-ummah","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85665","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=85665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}