{"id":14376,"date":"2014-05-11T06:55:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T06:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/militants-kill-20-iraqi-soldiers\/"},"modified":"2014-05-11T06:54:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T06:54:23","slug":"militants-kill-20-iraqi-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/militants-kill-20-iraqi-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Militants &#8216;Kill 20 Iraqi Soldiers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Militants have killed 20 Iraqi soldiers in an attack on a base near the northern city of Mosul, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the soldiers had been shot at close range. Some of the dead had their hands tied behind their backs, a medical worker told media.<\/p>\n<p>Insurgents in Sunni-dominated parts of northern and western Iraq have been fighting security forces under the command of the Shia-led government.<\/p>\n<p>Violence has peaked again since the sectarian conflict of the last decade}}<\/p>\n<p>The UN says more than 8,000 people were killed in Iraq last year, the highest figure since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The government has blamed the rising bloodshed on Sunni militants, linking it to the conflict in neighbouring Syria.<\/p>\n<p>But many analysts and diplomats say the government, led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, has contributed to the unrest by alienating the Sunni minority.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq held a parliamentary election earlier this month. The result has not yet been announced.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-5701 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dse-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Militants have killed 20 Iraqi soldiers in an attack on a base near the northern city of Mosul, officials say. Many of the soldiers had been shot at close range. Some of the dead had their hands tied behind their backs, a medical worker told media. Insurgents in Sunni-dominated parts of northern and western Iraq [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000052122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-14376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":{"id":2000052122,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14376.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14376.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14376.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14376.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14376.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14376.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000052122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14376"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=14376"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=14376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}