{"id":10969,"date":"2017-04-28T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=10969"},"modified":"2017-04-28T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T15:23:00","slug":"5-syrian-soldiers-killed-near-palmyra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/5-syrian-soldiers-killed-near-palmyra\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Syrian soldiers killed near Palmyra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday around noon, a jihadist hit-and-run operation on the southern vicinity of Palmyra caught a unit of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) off-guard, resulting in the death of a handful of government troops.<\/p>\n<p>According to a bulletin released by Amaq Agency, the ISIS raid targeted a SAA outpost at the Sukkari Quarries directly south of the ancient city, killing 5 SAA soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the SAA liberated the Al-Shaer Gas Fields yesterday and followed up by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.almasdarnews.com\/article\/syrian-army-captures-base-amid-swift-advance-east-homs\/\">c<\/a>apturing the abandoned Armored Battalion earlier today in a region northwest of Palmyra.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Amaq Agency released a series of highly graphic pictures depicting another raid near the Palmyra Silos, killing at least 8 SAA soldiers and capturing 4 in the process.<\/p>\n<p>The incident could not be independently verified by Al-Masdar News. Amaq Agency often exaggerates death toll numbers and in some rare instances completely fabricates them.<\/p>\n<p>The ISIS-linked outlet is usually accurate when reported Islamic State advances but never admits caliphate losses.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Al-Masdar News<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday around noon, a jihadist hit-and-run operation on the southern vicinity of Palmyra caught a unit of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) off-guard, resulting in the death of a handful of government troops. According to a bulletin released by Amaq Agency, the ISIS raid targeted a SAA outpost at the Sukkari Quarries directly south &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10971,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969\/revisions\/10971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}