{"id":2552,"date":"2017-09-05T02:49:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T02:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2552"},"modified":"2017-09-05T02:49:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T02:49:24","slug":"syrian-army-and-allies-thrust-east-to-break-siege-in-deir-al-zor-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/09\/05\/syrian-army-and-allies-thrust-east-to-break-siege-in-deir-al-zor-city\/","title":{"rendered":"SYRIAN ARMY AND ALLIES THRUST EAST TO BREAK SIEGE IN DEIR AL ZOR CITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/03\/Azaz_Syria.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-782\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/03\/Azaz_Syria-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/03\/Azaz_Syria-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/03\/Azaz_Syria-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/03\/Azaz_Syria-560x371.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/03\/Azaz_Syria-260x172.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/03\/Azaz_Syria-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : Reuters<\/p>\n<p>By Ellen Francis, Laila Bassam<\/p>\n<p>With a sudden lunge through jihadist lines, the Syrian army and its allies on Monday came to within 3 km of relieving the Euphrates city of Deir al-Zor, where Islamic State has besieged 93,000 civilians and an army garrison for years.<\/p>\n<p>The advance on the eastern city marks another stinging setback for the once-triumphant Islamic State, fast retreating in both Iraq and Syria as its self-declared caliphate crumbles.<\/p>\n<p>Syrian troops were rapidly approaching the city, reaching a point 3 km (2 miles) away, state television said. Dozens of trucks loaded with food stood ready to enter the enclave in the city once government forces break the siege, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-mideast-crisis-syria\/syrian-army-allies-thrust-east-to-break-siege-in-deir-al-zor-city-idUSKCN1BF1G0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : Reuters By Ellen Francis, Laila Bassam With a sudden lunge through jihadist lines, the Syrian army and its allies on Monday came to within 3 km of relieving the Euphrates city of Deir al-Zor, where Islamic State has besieged 93,000 civilians and an army garrison for years. The advance on the eastern city&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/09\/05\/syrian-army-and-allies-thrust-east-to-break-siege-in-deir-al-zor-city\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SYRIAN ARMY AND ALLIES THRUST EAST TO BREAK SIEGE IN DEIR AL ZOR CITY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1648,606,15],"class_list":["post-2552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-deir-al-zor","tag-islamic-state","tag-syria","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552","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=2552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2553,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions\/2553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}