{"id":71126,"date":"2017-03-27T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T19:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71126"},"modified":"2017-03-27T14:36:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T18:36:14","slug":"kurds-take-isil-air-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71126","title":{"rendered":"Kurds Take ISIL Air Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/imagecache\/mbdxxlarge\/mritems\/Images\/2017\/3\/27\/0ce0c389dbf74f35813c44e327a5d00d_18.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p>The Tabqa air base is 28 miles west of Raqqa. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4713496\/kurdish-rebels-isis-tabqa-syria\/\">http:\/\/time.com\/4713496\/kurdish-rebels-isis-tabqa-syria\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>US-led coalition forces have said the Tabqa dam is structurally sound. It is 25 miles upstread of Raqqa on the Euphrates River.<\/p>\n<p>The activist group \u201cRaqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently\u201d reported that ISIS had ordered Raqqa residents to evacuate, though without their furniture. \u00a0Those sand rats must be setting up an after-market postwar furniture chain.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian National Coalition said in a statement that it was &#8220;increasingly concerned&#8221; about civilian casualties in the campaign against the extremist group.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s more detail at the report in this link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/03\/backed-forces-capture-tabqa-air-base-isil-170327033050002.html\">http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/03\/backed-forces-capture-tabqa-air-base-isil-170327033050002.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0comes just a few days after the US airlifted the Kurdish forces last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Reuters The Tabqa air base is 28 miles west of Raqqa. \u00a0http:\/\/time.com\/4713496\/kurdish-rebels-isis-tabqa-syria\/ US-led coalition forces &hellip; <a title=\"Kurds Take ISIL Air Base\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71126\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kurds Take ISIL Air Base<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71126","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}