{"id":216,"date":"2014-12-27T11:38:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T11:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=216"},"modified":"2015-01-12T15:32:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T15:32:35","slug":"us-military-drops-weapons-in-areas-held-by-isis-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/us-military-drops-weapons-in-areas-held-by-isis-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"US military drops weapons in areas held by ISIS in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divLead2\">\n<p><strong>Volunteer forces fighting against the ISIS Takfiri terrorists say US military aircrafts have dropped weapons in areas held by the terrorist group in Iraq.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>American helicopters dropped boxes of weapons in Yathrib and Balad districts in Iraq\u2019s Salahuddin Province, according to the fighters.<\/p>\n<p>The report comes as the Iraqi army and volunteer fighters appear to be gaining the upper hand and making significant gains against ISIL.<\/p>\n<p>In October, a video showed the terrorist group captured a bundle of US weapons airdropped in the Syrian border town of Kobani.<\/p>\n<p>The US military admitted that it had dropped 28 bundles filled with grenades, mortar rounds and other supplies that were intended for Kurdish fighters.<\/p>\n<p>The video showed masked terrorists inspecting the military equipment, which was airdropped in areas controlled by ISIL near Kobani.<\/p>\n<p>The US Central Command said that the airdrops, including weapons and ammunition, and medical supplies, were &#8220;intended to enable continued resistance against ISIL&#8217;s attempts to overtake Kobani.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The US and its allies have been conducting airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>They say they are carrying out the airstrikes against the Takfiris in both countries in order to curb their advances in the region.<\/p>\n<p>However, the air raids have so far failed to halt the insurgents\u2019 military gains.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.com\/detail\/2014\/12\/27\/392011\/us-drops-weapons-in-areas-held-by-isil\/\" target=\"_blank\">Press TV<\/a> &#8211; SB\/AGB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteer forces fighting against the ISIS Takfiri terrorists say US military aircrafts have dropped weapons in areas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217,"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":[44,1,125],"tags":[4,14,13,11,7,63],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-united-states","tag-iraq","tag-isis","tag-syria","tag-terrorism","tag-u-s","tag-weapons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/US-drop-weapons.jpg?fit=600%2C338&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-3u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","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=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}