{"id":37120,"date":"2013-08-16T10:47:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T14:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37120"},"modified":"2013-08-16T10:56:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T14:56:15","slug":"jihadists-take-raqa-from-rebels-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37120","title":{"rendered":"Jihadists take Raqa from rebels in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2013\/08\/14\/jihadists-push-syria-rebels-out-raqa\/?intcmp=obinsite\">Fox News<\/a> reports that al-Qaeda-linked jihadists have pushed a rebel force out of the Syrian city of Raqa;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For more than a week, clashes have pitted jihadists against the Ahfad al-Rasul brigade, a part of the mainstream Free Syrian Army, which has the backing of many Western and Arab countries.<\/p>\n<p>The fighting between the two rebel groups erupted when [Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant] attacked Ahfad al-Rasul positions in the city, according to the Observatory and brigade officials.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They wanted to take our munitions and weapons,&#8221; an official from Ahfad al-Rasul told AFP on condition of anonymity.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess once the jihadists get the rebel&#8217;s weapons, we&#8217;ll give the rebels some more and keep throwing gas on the fire. Sooner or later, our troops will be facing those same weapons in some corner of the globe. I&#8217;m all for helping them kill each other, but with weapons that self-destruct in a year or so.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Smitty for the link.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDED:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also, in Syria-related news someone told us that there are reports that a doctor from Doctors Without Borders, possibly American, has been kidnapped in Syria.  Sources say that nothing from potential captors has been heard.  The ISIL is suspected to be the group holding the doctor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that al-Qaeda-linked jihadists have pushed a rebel force out of the Syrian city &hellip; <a title=\"Jihadists take Raqa from rebels in Syria\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37120\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jihadists take Raqa from rebels in Syria<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}