{"id":7483,"date":"2014-01-25T19:09:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T19:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=7483"},"modified":"2014-03-31T01:55:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T01:55:56","slug":"mortar-attack-kills-six-in-iraqi-shiite-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/mortar-attack-kills-six-in-iraqi-shiite-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortar attack kills six in Iraqi Shiite village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least six people were killed on Saturday when three mortar bombs hit a Shiite Muslim village near the Iraqi city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) Northeast of Baghdad, police said.<a href=\"http:\/\/abna.ir\/abna.ir\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A woman and a child were among the victims, five of whom belonged to the same family, the police said, adding that the assailants might have been aiming at a nearby police station.<\/p>\n<p>Sunni Muslim insurgents often target the security forces, as well as Shiite civilians and Sunni tribal militiamen paid by the Shiite-led government to combat al Qaeda-linked groups.<\/p>\n<p>Violence in Iraq climbed back to its highest level in five years in 2013, when nearly 9,000 people were killed, most of them civilians, according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least six people were killed on Saturday when three mortar bombs hit a Shiite Muslim village near the Iraqi city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) Northeast of Baghdad, police said.\u00a0 A woman and a child were among the victims, five of whom belonged to the same family, the police said, adding that the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7483","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\/7483","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=7483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7485,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483\/revisions\/7485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}