{"id":62407,"date":"2015-10-22T09:58:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T13:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62407"},"modified":"2015-10-22T09:58:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T13:58:47","slug":"one-american-killed-in-hostage-rescue-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62407","title":{"rendered":"One American killed in hostage rescue in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/10\/22\/middleeast\/us-iraq-hostage-rescue-attempt\/\">CNN<\/a>, an American was killed in an otherwise successful rescue of more than 70 hostages from ISIS;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Seventy hostages were liberated in the operation, which involved U.S. special operations troops as well as Kurdish and Iraqi forces, U.S. officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The operation took place in Hawija in northern Iraq, one U.S. source said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-special-forces-reportedly-mounted-a-risky-hostage-rescue-operation-in-iraq-2015-10\">Business Insider<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The raid was directed against an ISIS run prison to the east of Hawija and featured American helicopters and airstrikes, The New York Times reports citing unnamed Iraqi officials. During the operation Kurdish forces took the lead while US Special Forces and airstrikes provided support. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Iraqi officials, the raid resulted in the freeing of the Kurdish prisoners and the capture of several senior ISIS militants. The Times reports that two unnamed US military officials confirmed the general outline of the operation. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNN, an American was killed in an otherwise successful rescue of more than 70 &hellip; <a title=\"One American killed in hostage rescue in Iraq\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62407\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One American killed in hostage rescue in Iraq<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62407","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=62407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}