{"id":57195,"date":"2014-12-19T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57195"},"modified":"2014-12-18T14:24:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T19:24:45","slug":"us-troops-engage-with-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57195","title":{"rendered":"US troops engage with ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISIS forces tried to penetrate the Ein al-Asad Iraqi military base last weekend where about a hundred US forces are deployed in Operation Inherent Resolve and an unknown number of them were sent to Allah, according to the UK&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2878897\/American-troops-battle-ISIS-time-attempted-attack-militants-Iraqi-base.html\">Daily Mail<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ein al-Asad came under repeated attack by ISIS troops in October, however, now bolstered by the U.S. assistance, it poses a much more formidable target.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Mahmud Nimrawi, a tribal leader in the region, said &#8216;US forces intervened because ISIS started to come near the base, which they are stationed in, so (it was) out of self-defense,&#8217; Shafaq News reported.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;We have made progress in (the) al-Dolab area, in which ISIS has withdrawn from.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s what happens when you tell the world that you&#8217;re not sending combat forces into combat &#8211; they become politically attractive targets.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISIS forces tried to penetrate the Ein al-Asad Iraqi military base last weekend where about a &hellip; <a title=\"US troops engage with ISIS\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57195\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US troops engage with ISIS<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57195","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=57195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}