{"id":118,"date":"2014-12-22T10:42:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T10:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=118"},"modified":"2015-01-12T15:30:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T15:30:08","slug":"syria-downs-israeli-drone-in-golan-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/syria-downs-israeli-drone-in-golan-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria downs Israeli drone in Golan Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divLead2\">\n<p>An Israeli reconnaissance drone has been downed over the southwestern Syrian city of Al-Quneitra reportedly by the Syrian army.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Citing military sources, media reports said the Skylark unmanned aerial vehicle \u201cwas brought down\u201d on Sunday when it was doing reconnaissance over Quneitra in the Golan Heights.<\/p>\n<p>Quneitra is located in the demilitarized zone between Syria and the Israeli-occupied side of the Golan Heights monitored by the UN peacekeepers since 1974.<\/p>\n<p>No further details have been given yet. There has been no comment from the Israeli officials so far.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred as the Syrian army has the upper hand in the battle against foreign-backed militants during the past months.<\/p>\n<p>Israel, which is among the supporters of anti-Damascus Takfiri militants, has carried out several airstrikes on government positions inside Syria since the outbreak of the foreign-backed violence in the Arab country in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Syria has slammed the aerial assaults as a flagrant violation of its territorial integrity, and called on the UN Security Council to condemn the Tel Aviv regime for its aggression.<\/p>\n<p>DB\/MKA\/AS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Israeli reconnaissance drone has been downed over the southwestern Syrian city of Al-Quneitra reportedly by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[43,26,356,5,13],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-drone","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-syria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Israeli-Drone.jpg?fit=630%2C353&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}