{"id":1297115,"date":"2023-10-27T14:08:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T14:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=075db0b20559a3699d0c385e9b104925"},"modified":"2023-10-27T14:08:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T14:08:26","slug":"us-bombs-syria-amid-escalating-fears-of-wider-regional-conflagration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/10\/27\/us-bombs-syria-amid-escalating-fears-of-wider-regional-conflagration\/","title":{"rendered":"US Bombs Syria Amid Escalating Fears of Wider Regional Conflagration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military early Friday carried out airstrikes on two sites in eastern Syria that the Pentagon claims are used by Iran&rsquo;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and allied groups, a move that came amid mounting fears that Israel&rsquo;s ongoing, U.S.-backed assault on Gaza could spark a broader regional war in the Middle East. The strikes were carried out at the direction of U.S.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/us-bombs-syria-amid-escalating-fears-of-wider-regional-conflagration\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/us-bombs-syria-amid-escalating-fears-of-wider-regional-conflagration\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden directed airstrikes on two sites the Pentagon claims are used by Iranian forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10803,287,25,82,51,4,473,196],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297115"}],"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\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1297116,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297115\/revisions\/1297116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}