{"id":13371,"date":"2018-03-31T01:58:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T01:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=13371"},"modified":"2018-03-31T01:58:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T01:58:08","slug":"us-and-british-troops-killed-in-syria-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/us-and-british-troops-killed-in-syria-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"US and British troops killed in Syria: Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"item-image\"><figcaption id=\"mainFigCap\"><em>US soldiers stand at attention during a visit of a US delegation to the YPG-held northern Syrian city of Manbij, where the US has a military presence, on March 22, 2018. (Photo by AFP)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>Two members of the US-led coalition in Syria, one British and another one American, have been killed in an improvised explosive device attack, according to officials.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The attack, which took place on Thursday near the Syrian city of Manbij, injured five other troops too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo coalition personnel were killed and five were wounded by an improvised explosive device in Syria\u201d at around midnight (2100 GMT), the coalition said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The British Defense Ministry also confirmed that the one of them was from within its ranks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe individual was embedded with US forces on a counter-Daesh operation when the incident occurred,\u201d the ministry stated.<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/03\/02\/554065\/Syria-United-States-UK-chemical-Damascus-Eastern-Ghouta\">\n<div class=\"oembed\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/107.189.40.46\/photo\/20180302\/6c6e9909-5901-4f37-9dca-76a85da4c08c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"title\">PressTV-\u2018US, UK instructed terrorists to use chemicals in Ghouta\u2019<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A Syrian military source says terrorists based in Eastern Ghouta have been instructed by the Western states to use chemical arms there and blame it on the Damascus governments.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The US and its allies have been bombarding what they call Daesh positions inside Syria since September 2014 without any authorization from the Damascus government or a UN mandate.<\/p>\n<p>The strikes, however, have on many occasions resulted in civilian casualties and failed to fulfill their declared aim of countering terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the conflict in Syria in early 2011, more than 350,000 people have been killed, according to the United Nations&#8217; estimates.<\/p>\n<p>Syria has, for several times, written to the UN to complain that the US was flagrantly violating its sovereignty. The US supports militants fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad and has repeatedly attacked Syrian army positions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US soldiers stand at attention during a visit of a US delegation to the YPG-held northern Syrian city of Manbij, where the US has a military presence, on March 22, 2018. (Photo by AFP) Two members of the US-led coalition in Syria, one British and another one American, have been killed in an improvised explosive &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13371","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\/13371","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=13371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13373,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13371\/revisions\/13373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}