{"id":20118,"date":"2015-07-13T09:23:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T09:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/bomb-damages-aleppo-s-ancient-citadel\/"},"modified":"2015-07-13T09:22:52","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T09:22:52","slug":"bomb-damages-aleppo-s-ancient-citadel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/bomb-damages-aleppo-s-ancient-citadel\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb damages Aleppo&#8217;s ancient citadel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8263 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/aleppocitadel.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{A report in the BBC has stated that an explosion has caused part of the walls of Aleppo&#8217;s ancient citadel to collapse.}<\/p>\n<p>The citadel was built in the 13th Century, and overlooks Aleppo&#8217;s Old City and is part of a UN-listed World Heritage site.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8264 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/halep-kalesi335070.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Syrian government forces have been using the citadel as a military position.<\/p>\n<p>Government and rebel forces have been fighting for control of the city for over three years. According to the BBC, it is not known which side caused the explosion.<br \/>\nThe citadel prior to the war in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said the explosion occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The blast caused the collapse of part of the wall of the citadel,&#8221; the organisation&#8217;s chief, Rami Abdel Rahman, told AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>World Bulletin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A report in the BBC has stated that an explosion has caused part of the walls of Aleppo&#8217;s ancient citadel to collapse.} The citadel was built in the 13th Century, and overlooks Aleppo&#8217;s Old City and is part of a UN-listed World Heritage site. Syrian government forces have been using the citadel as a military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000069161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-20118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000069161,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20118.png","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/png","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20118.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20118.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20118.png","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20118.png","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20118.png","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20118","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000069161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20118"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=20118"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=20118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}