{"id":1161309,"date":"2023-07-29T16:27:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T16:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=9a95aa6a64d4c0c71d0ed62bd5c41f46"},"modified":"2023-07-29T16:27:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T16:27:26","slug":"as-ukraine-war-rages-us-and-russian-operations-in-syria-are-escalating-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/07\/29\/as-ukraine-war-rages-us-and-russian-operations-in-syria-are-escalating-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"As Ukraine War Rages, US and Russian Operations in Syria Are Escalating Tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-Russian tensions continued to rise this week as two U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones were damaged by flares released from Russian jets over Syria. The first incident on Sunday damaged the drone&rsquo;s propeller but did not cause it to crash, but it echoed a similar episode over the Black Sea in March when the drone crashed after a collision with a Russian jet. Another incident occurred Wednesday over...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/as-ukraine-war-rages-us-and-russian-operations-in-syria-are-escalating-tensions\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/as-ukraine-war-rages-us-and-russian-operations-in-syria-are-escalating-tensions\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nations&#8217; proxy battle in Ukraine is causing actual physical altercations on a battlefront thousands of miles away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[710,11988,4721,24,196,376,44376],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161310,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161309\/revisions\/1161310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}