{"id":2301,"date":"2017-06-28T13:07:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T13:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2017-06-28T13:07:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T13:07:16","slug":"syrias-assad-boards-russian-jet-visits-injured-soldiers-amid-u-s-military-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/06\/28\/syrias-assad-boards-russian-jet-visits-injured-soldiers-amid-u-s-military-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"SYRIA\u2019S ASSAD BOARDS RUSSIAN JET VISITS INJURED SOLDIERS AMID U.S MILITARY THREATS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/ASSAD-SU-35.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2302\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/ASSAD-SU-35.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/ASSAD-SU-35.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/ASSAD-SU-35-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/ASSAD-SU-35-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/ASSAD-SU-35-560x311.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/ASSAD-SU-35-260x144.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/ASSAD-SU-35-160x89.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : Newsweek<\/p>\n<p>By <span class=\"author\"> <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/authors\/tom-oconnor\" rel=\"author\">Tom O&#8217;Connor<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Syrian President Bashar al-Assad rarely makes public appearances outside Damascus, but he has been seen frequently in recent days, including visiting wounded soldiers and a major Russian-leased military base in Syria, as Moscow defended him against U.S. accusations that he and his armed forces were planning to launch a chemical weapons attack.<\/p>\n<p>Assad was seen Tuesday climbing into what observers described as a Russian-made Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jet at Syria\u2019s Hmeymim\u00a0air base near the western seaboard city of Latakia. The Syrian leader was also photographed inspecting a BMPT-2 armored personnel carrier, unofficially nicknamed the Terminator,\u00a0and an airborne fighting infantry vehicle, among other Russian weaponry stationed at the crucial military installation.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the visit, Assad was accompanied by Russian Defense Ministry Chief of Staff\u00a0General Valery Gerasimov and a number of other Russian military officers, according to the state-run <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/?p=579965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Syrian Arab News Agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Image Sourced : RT<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/syria-assad-russia-jet-hurt-soldiers-us-military-629433?utm_campaign=NewsweekFacebookSF&amp;utm_source=Facebook&amp;utm_medium=Social<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : Newsweek By Tom O&#8217;Connor Syrian President Bashar al-Assad rarely makes public appearances outside Damascus, but he has been seen frequently in recent days, including visiting wounded soldiers and a major Russian-leased military base in Syria, as Moscow defended him against U.S. accusations that he and his armed forces were planning to launch a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/06\/28\/syrias-assad-boards-russian-jet-visits-injured-soldiers-amid-u-s-military-threats\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SYRIA\u2019S ASSAD BOARDS RUSSIAN JET VISITS INJURED SOLDIERS AMID U.S MILITARY THREATS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[21,40,15],"class_list":["post-2301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-assad","tag-moscow","tag-syria","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions\/2303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}