{"id":1210,"date":"2015-02-25T12:52:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T12:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2015-02-25T12:52:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T12:52:35","slug":"syrian-army-launches-attack-to-break-isiss-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/syrian-army-launches-attack-to-break-isiss-siege\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian army launches attack to break ISIS&#8217;s siege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Syrian army troops have launched a fresh offensive in the countryside of the war-ravaged northern city of Aleppo\u00a0in a bid to break the siege of several suburban towns that remained under the ISIL Takfiri terrorists&#8217; control.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Government forces have reportedly advanced towards the northwest outskirts of the major city in an attempt to break the siege of the towns of Nubel and al-Zahra by the foreign-backed militant group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is while the army has also engaged in mop-up operations in a number of villages in the area that have already been liberated from terrorist elements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In southwestern parts of Aleppo, meanwhile, heavy clashes continue between pro-government forces and the armed insurgents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aleppo is at the forefront of battles between Syrian government forces and a variety of foreign-sponsored militants, including the notorious ISIL, the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front and other terrorist factions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last week, Syrian troops, backed by fighters from the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah, closed in on the two Shia-populated towns in the Aleppo countryside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pro-government forces have also blocked the main road connecting Aleppo to the Turkish border, maintaining their control over the road that serves as a vital supply line for the foreign-backed militants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The escalation of government efforts around the strategic city is mostly aimed at cutting the supply lines of the armed terrorists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Syria has been grappling with a deadly crisis since March 2011. The violence fueled by Takfiri groups has so far claimed the lives of an estimated 210,000 people, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MFB\/NN\/HRB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syrian army troops have launched a fresh offensive in the countryside of the war-ravaged northern city of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178,"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":[6,14,15,113,13,128],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-defense","tag-isis","tag-militants","tag-security","tag-syria","tag-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Syrian-Troops.jpg?fit=650%2C365&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-jw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","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=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}