{"id":100807,"date":"2013-12-23T17:53:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T17:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/attacks-in-iraq-kill-20-as-government-hunts-al-qaeda\/"},"modified":"2013-12-23T17:53:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T17:53:16","slug":"attacks-in-iraq-kill-20-as-government-hunts-al-qaeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/attacks-in-iraq-kill-20-as-government-hunts-al-qaeda\/","title":{"rendered":"Attacks in Iraq kill 20 as government hunts al-Qaeda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/usatoday\/article\/4174267\"><strong>Associated Press<\/strong><\/a><br \/>December 23, 2013<\/p>\n<p>A new wave of attacks across Iraq killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens on Monday as the government pressed on with its offensive to hunt down al-Qaeda-linked militants in the country&#8217;s volatile western desert.<\/p>\n<p>The military operation in Anbar province followed the weekend killing of a senior military commander, a colonel and five soldiers in an ambush there during a raid on a militant hideout early Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>A government statement said security forces backed by helicopters have been combing the desert near the borders with Syria and Jordan. Syria&#8217;s civil war and chaos have led to widespread cross-border movement of al-Qaeda fighters between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Monday, December 23, 2013  at  11:30 am<\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p><!-- share and follow --><!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p>&lt;!&#8211; this is where we need to show the related articles  <\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles_container\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/attacks-in-iraq-kill-20-as-government-hunts-al-qaeda\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Attacks in Iraq kill 20 as government hunts al-Qaeda\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated PressDecember 23, 2013 A new wave of attacks across Iraq killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens on Monday as the government pressed on with its offensive to hunt down al-Qaeda-linked militants in the country&#8217;s volatile western desert. The military operation in Anbar province followed the weekend killing of a senior military commander, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-100807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}