{"id":937,"date":"2015-02-05T08:54:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T08:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=937"},"modified":"2015-02-05T09:02:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T09:02:23","slug":"uae-suspends-its-airstrike-missions-against-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/uae-suspends-its-airstrike-missions-against-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE suspends its airstrike missions against ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">US officials say the UAE has suspended its cooperation with a US-led coalition in conducting airstrikes against the Takfiri ISIL terrorist group in Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United Arab Emirates, a key Arab member of the US-led coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), stopped conducting air strikes in Syria over fears for pilots&#8217; safety. According to US officials UAE has not flown combat missions over Syria since last December.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking on condition of anonymity, the officials said that Abu Dhabi made the decision in December when a Jordanian air force plane went down over Syria while on a mission against the terrorists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cI can confirm that UAE suspended airstrikes shortly after the Jordanian pilot\u2019s plane went down, but let me be clear that UAE continues to be an important and valuable partner that is contributing to the coalition,\u201d<\/em> one official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ISIS captured the Jordanian pilot of the plane that crashed, Moaz al-Kassasbeh, on December 24, 2014. The ISIL on Tuesday released a video online showing the Takfiri terrorists burning Kassasbeh alive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UAE and Jordan are among the Arab states that joined the US-led coalition that has been carrying out airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria since September.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20150205\/43194d6b-92aa-4e1c-9caa-6f1cdb8aa513.jpg?w=1016\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki on Wednesday declined to respond to\u00a0a question about the UAE\u2019s departure from the coalition, saying, \u201cWe are not going to confirm any reports about other countries and their military operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Takfiris control swathes of land in Syria and Iraq and have been carrying out horrific acts of violence such as public decapitations and crucifixions against all communities such as Shias, Sunnis, Kurds and Christians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">AJ\/DB\/HJL\/HMV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US officials say the UAE has suspended its cooperation with a US-led coalition in conducting airstrikes against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":938,"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":[16,14,356,15,5,7,141],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-airstrike","tag-isis","tag-middle-east","tag-militants","tag-military","tag-u-s","tag-uae"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Air-Strikes-ISIS.jpg?fit=670%2C364&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-f7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","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=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}