{"id":991042,"date":"2023-02-13T06:39:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T06:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=274023"},"modified":"2023-02-13T06:39:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T06:39:06","slug":"syria-held-hostage-by-the-u-s-a-and-its-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/13\/syria-held-hostage-by-the-u-s-a-and-its-allies\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria Held Hostage by the U.S.A. and Its Allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the most agonizing experience for a family, for any\u00a0bystander, even for humanitarian professionals, is a double tragedy\u2014a death or calamity where they are refused access, where they\u00a0are forced to helplessly witness suffering, unable to offer succor.\u00a0This is surely what faces millions of able-bodied Syrians today. It\u00a0affects Syrians within the stricken nation along with their  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/13\/syria-held-hostage-by-the-u-s-a-and-its-allies\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/13\/syria-held-hostage-by-the-u-s-a-and-its-allies\/\">Syria Held Hostage by the U.S.A. and Its Allies<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/13\/syria-held-hostage-by-the-u-s-a-and-its-allies\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the most agonizing experience for a family, for any\u00a0bystander, even for humanitarian professionals, is a double tragedy\u2014a death or calamity where they are refused access, where they\u00a0are forced to helplessly witness suffering, unable to offer su&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1756,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991042"}],"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\/1756"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991043,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991042\/revisions\/991043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}