{"id":18627,"date":"2020-03-11T08:05:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T08:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=18627"},"modified":"2020-03-11T08:05:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T08:05:45","slug":"expert-us-lying-about-death-of-2-forces-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/expert-us-lying-about-death-of-2-forces-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert: US Lying about Death of 2 Forces in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ntDesc\">A prominent Iraqi expert said that the US releases fake news about the death of its soldiers, in what it calls as anti-ISIL battle, to prolong its deployment in Iraq.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ntText\">\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\u201cIt is a fake piece of news and is aimed at forging the needed excuse to continue the US presence in Iraq,\u201d Safa al-A\u2019asam told the Arabic-language al-Ma\u2019aloumeh news website on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">He added that the US forces had also earlier fabricated such reports, including an alleged attack by Hashd al-Shaabi (Iraqi volunteer forces) on Washington\u2019s embassy in Baghdad or Ein al-Assad base in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">The US Central Command (CENTCOM) claimed on Monday that 2 US service members were killed by \u201cenemy forces\u201d while advising and accompanying Iraqi Security Forces during a mission to \u201celiminate an ISIS terrorist stronghold\u201d in a mountainous area of North Central Iraq on March 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">It added that the names of the service members are withheld pending next of kin notification, in accordance with US Department of Defense policy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prominent Iraqi expert said that the US releases fake news about the death of its soldiers, in what it calls as anti-ISIL battle, to prolong its deployment in Iraq. \u201cIt is a fake piece of news and is aimed at forging the needed excuse to continue the US presence in Iraq,\u201d Safa al-A\u2019asam told &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18627","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=18627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18629,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18627\/revisions\/18629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}