{"id":20912,"date":"2015-10-30T10:40:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T10:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/us-to-send-special-forces-unit-to-syria\/"},"modified":"2015-10-30T10:39:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T10:39:46","slug":"us-to-send-special-forces-unit-to-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/us-to-send-special-forces-unit-to-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"US to send special forces unit to Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The US is sending special forces to Syria to assist anti-government rebels in fighting the so-called Islamic State (IS), officials have said.}<\/p>\n<p>There will be &#8220;fewer than 50&#8221; forces deployed in the region, in what will be the first time US troops are working openly on the ground in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>There have been US special forces raids on IS militants in the country.<\/p>\n<p>A senior administration official told the BBC this does not signal a change in US strategy in Syria.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8835 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/gif\/syria-map.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The US is sending special forces to Syria to assist anti-government rebels in fighting the so-called Islamic State (IS), officials have said.} There will be &#8220;fewer than 50&#8221; forces deployed in the region, in what will be the first time US troops are working openly on the ground in Syria. There have been US special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000069913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-20912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","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":2000069913,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20912.gif","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/gif","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20912.gif","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20912.gif","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20912.gif","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20912.gif","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20912.gif","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20912","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=20912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000069913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20912"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=20912"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=20912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}