{"id":10352,"date":"2014-09-01T12:40:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T12:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=10352"},"modified":"2014-09-01T12:40:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T12:40:20","slug":"iraq-kurds-capture-northeast-town-from-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/iraq-kurds-capture-northeast-town-from-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Kurds capture northeast town from ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Iraqi Kurdish forces and allied militiamen retook the town of Sulaiman Bek from militants on Monday, removing a key stronghold they have held for over 11 weeks, officials said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sulaiman Bek is under the control of the combined forces,&#8221; but there is still danger from bombs the militants may have left behind, said Shallal Abdul Baban, the official responsible for the nearby Tuz Khurmatu area.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting to retake the village of Yankaja, also located in Salaheddin province, northeast of Baghdad, was ongoing, Baban said.<\/p>\n<p>A colonel in the Kurdish peshmerga forces and Talib al-Bayati, the top official from Sulaiman Bek, both confirmed that it had been retaken, adding that it had been an important position for the militants.<\/p>\n<p>The town is located near Amerli, where thousands of mainly Shia Turkmen civilians were trapped by a jihadist siege until Iraqi forces broke through on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Amerli operation was the government&#8217;s biggest offensive success since militants led by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria captured a huge chunk of northern and north-central Iraq in June.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/english.al-akhbar.com\/content\/iraq-kurds-capture-northeast-town-isis\">Al Akhbar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi Kurdish forces and allied militiamen retook the town of Sulaiman Bek from militants on Monday, removing a key stronghold they have held for over 11 weeks, officials said. &#8220;Sulaiman Bek is under the control of the combined forces,&#8221; but there is still danger from bombs the militants may have left behind, said Shallal Abdul &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,941,905,986,163],"class_list":["post-10352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research","tag-iraq-2","tag-iraqi-army","tag-isis","tag-kurds","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10355,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352\/revisions\/10355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}