{"id":2550,"date":"2017-09-05T01:41:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T01:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2017-09-05T01:41:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T01:41:55","slug":"u-s-backed-forces-seize-raqqas-old-city-fromisis-but-a-tough-fight-lies-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/09\/05\/u-s-backed-forces-seize-raqqas-old-city-fromisis-but-a-tough-fight-lies-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S-BACKED FORCES SEIZE RAQQA\u2019S OLD CITY FROMISIS BUT A TOUGH FIGHT LIES AHEAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/06\/SYRIAN-ARMY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-992\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/06\/SYRIAN-ARMY-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : The Washington Post<\/p>\n<p>By Liz Sly<\/p>\n<p>U.S.-backed forces in Syria have captured the Old City of Raqqa, the latest milestone in their ongoing assault against the self-proclaimed capital of the Islamic State\u2019s rapidly shrinking territories, according to a U.S. military statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Kurdish and Arab fighters with the Syrian Democratic Forces secured the neighborhood over the weekend after vanquishing a last pocket of resistance in the city\u2019s historic Great Mosque, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The capture followed a grinding two-month battle for the neighborhood that has proved the toughest challenge yet of a three-month-old offensive for Raqqa, launched in June and still far from over.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike in Mosul, the Old City does not lie at the heart of Raqqa and its seizure does not signify an imminent end to the fighting, said a U.S. military spokesman, Col. Ryan Dillon.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/us-backed-forces-seize-raqqas-old-city-from-isis-but-a-tough-fight-still-lies-ahead\/2017\/09\/04\/8fbe5ac6-917a-11e7-8482-8dc9a7af29f9_story.html?utm_term=.25e56fd80b68<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : The Washington Post By Liz Sly U.S.-backed forces in Syria have captured the Old City of Raqqa, the latest milestone in their ongoing assault against the self-proclaimed capital of the Islamic State\u2019s rapidly shrinking territories, according to a U.S. military statement on Monday. Kurdish and Arab fighters with the Syrian Democratic Forces secured&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/09\/05\/u-s-backed-forces-seize-raqqas-old-city-fromisis-but-a-tough-fight-lies-ahead\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S-BACKED FORCES SEIZE RAQQA\u2019S OLD CITY FROMISIS BUT A TOUGH FIGHT LIES AHEAD<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[654,15,794],"class_list":["post-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-raqqa","tag-syria","tag-syrian-democratic-forces","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","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=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2551,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions\/2551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}